Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 2 | Well we told them when we rung them up we have n't got a thing , we 're gon na nip up to quote a plate with it just as we 're going into |
| 3 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 4 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 5 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 6 | ‘ She told me that you phoned her and asked for a meeting in town . ’ |
| 7 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 8 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |
| 9 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 11 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me that he loved me and that was it . ’ |
| 13 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 14 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 15 | In my letter to Eliot , enclosing my own article , I had expressed the hope that , in contrast to Rowse , who told me that he considered my letter ‘ ineffective ’ , might approve of it . |
| 16 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 17 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 18 | She told me that she felt she could do this , and proceeded to do so . |
| 19 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 20 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 21 | No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he . |
| 22 | ‘ Our Blessed Lord lies here , ’ she told me as she handed me altar cloths and corporals to iron . |
| 23 | You told me when you called his bluff 'bout blowin' the place to hell , on the grounds he an ’ his goons 'd burn with it , he said that they would n't be there by then . |
| 24 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 25 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 26 | I told you that she felt her life was ended . |
| 27 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 28 | But , but I said but , but that thing Trem , Trem like when she said to me do n't tell you but I told you because it concerned us |
| 29 | What would he say if she told him that she fought him because she was afraid that if she did n't she would fall in love with him ? |
| 30 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |