Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reliable informants told me that the Kundry , Dunja Vejzovic , who was dreadfully bronchitic the night I attended , had performed impressively earlier in the run . |
| 2 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 3 | one journalist , one famous Scottish journalist told me when I wo , when I , when I had ambitions to be a journalists , oh do n't go into journalism because you 're a women and all you 'll get to write about is fashion ! |
| 4 | Cos you ca n't get , an old bloke told me that . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ says Charles , the lumpish one now , ‘ that 's what this girl told me . ’ |
| 6 | The Penrith trainer , who always answers a question by asking another question told me ‘ Has he not got the class to win it ? |
| 7 | My extended senses told me that it was vast . |
| 8 | Another teacher told me , after attending in-service courses , that while the approach offers an exciting avenue to explore which pupils find rewarding and even mind- blowing , and many of the exercises are valuable as a means of self-awareness , she felt that pupils were being steered towards abandoning the mind as a means of knowing and just accepting the subjectivity of values which do not have to be justified . |
| 9 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 10 | At a bridge above the fall a friendly sign said " Keep out , private property " , while another sign told me that a bull was loose with cattle in the field I had to cross . |
| 11 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Some people told me I should have told the selectors to shove it and play for my club instead , but I thought if I kept quiet and plugged away I would get my chance — but I did n't think it would come this season , ’ Andrew said . |
| 13 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 14 | ‘ This woman told me to come to the church and do some healing . ’ |
| 15 | ( Yet some instinct told me that I must be careful to give her no cause for having a grievance . |
| 16 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 17 | ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ A few people told me it could n't be done but the prep races all fitted into his programme and we would hope to do something along similar lines next time . |
| 19 | I 've always been doing what this man told me or that man told me ; now I 'm doing things for myself . |
| 20 | Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families . |
| 21 | " The Old Man told me . " |
| 22 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 23 | The old man told me to enter , and to sit down . |
| 24 | Then , another doctor told me there was a drug that dries out alcoholics and makes something very raspy happen to the voice . |
| 25 | And an old official told me : |
| 26 | this Dorothy told me about she said get yourself up to the wool shop Ann and |
| 27 | At a Unesco conference in Geneva in 1974 , an administrator from central Africa told me : " We shall have great difficulties in establishing media centres in our rural schools . " |
| 28 | ‘ If my neighbour buys a car , ’ one typical consumer told me , ‘ I buy a bigger one . |
| 29 | But it is worth mentioning what a very experienced and established psychiatrist told me about his work when I interviewed him . |
| 30 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |