Example sentences of "[noun prp] have told [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Something Neil had told me about the island .
2 Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly .
3 This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding .
4 Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day .
5 After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so .
6 Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down .
7 But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame :
8 ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days .
9 Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries .
10 Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary .
11 Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’
12 Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice
13 To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen .
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