Example sentences of "i told [pron] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 2 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 3 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 4 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 5 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 6 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 7 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 8 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 9 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 10 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 11 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 12 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 13 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 14 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 15 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 16 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 18 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 19 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 20 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 21 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |
| 22 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 23 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |