Example sentences of "told me [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 2 | A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 3 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 4 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me to look out of the window — he had stolen my car , the car he bought for me . |
| 6 | ‘ Annabelle told me to look out for her brother John . |
| 7 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 8 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |