Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them that I was late and walked off . |
| 2 | I told them that I was British , that I had gone to Stuttgart under the British flag . |
| 3 | I told them that I could |
| 4 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 5 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 6 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 7 | I told them that I would like an audience with Andropov because I had something very important to discuss with him . |
| 8 | I arose and spoke and told them that I could not and would not do it . |
| 9 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 10 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 11 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 12 | I , I told them when I was over week , but he just says to keep giving 'em a tr give 'em a chance . |
| 13 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 14 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 15 | ( Yet some instinct told me that I must be careful to give her no cause for having a grievance . |
| 16 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 17 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 18 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 19 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 20 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 21 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 22 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 23 | ‘ My instincts told me that I should be aware of him and everything he did . |
| 24 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 25 | My mother told me that I was cold because I did n't eat enough . |
| 26 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 27 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |
| 28 | He told me that I would have the interview within two days . |
| 29 | The American authorities told me that I should make a general election law and arrange that the Korean people rule themselves . |
| 30 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |