Example sentences of "[subord] i told [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 2 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 3 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 4 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 5 | I rang up , just to check that he 'd taken it straight along there , like I told him to , and they said I had to fill in all these forms . |
| 6 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
| 7 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 8 | I read of her collecting ivy with her children for Christmas decorations ( she rightly hated holly ) , while I told her of walks by the Nile with Sappho , my pretty mongrel bitch , watching the beautiful boats with big-bellied sails bringing cattle-fodder from Upper Egypt . |
| 9 | I have n't been back since I told them about me and Polly . |
| 10 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 11 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 12 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 13 | They laughed like a couple of schoolgirls , hands fluttering to their mouths like butterflies when I told them of my encounter with the priest . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 15 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 16 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 17 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 18 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 19 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 20 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 21 | " I gave him the idea , " Timothy said , " when I told him about my dad . |
| 22 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 23 | When I told him about Marlborough , he cheered up a little . |
| 24 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 25 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 26 | She runs a sort of company for readings and uncostumed actings of unusual plays , and when I told her about Unisoculous she said she would put it on . |
| 27 | When I told her about this |
| 28 | when I told her about and she come running back to me on phone the other week Glenys , Glenys , she said will you tell people if they spend twenty five pound at Tescos , I thought well that wo n't be me , or is it thirty , you get a thing and to take it to school to put towards computers |
| 29 | When I told her about this . |
| 30 | She nodded sagely when I told her of my decision . |