Example sentences of "told [pron] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we just told them what the problem was , told them that there was ever such a nice quarry further down the road if they wanted to visit a slate quarry . |
| 2 | ‘ While I was with her , ’ I said , ‘ she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her — always , in every way , all your married life . ’ |
| 3 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 5 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 6 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |
| 7 | ‘ I remembered , ’ said Wexford , ‘ as soon as Cullam told me whose the body was . |
| 8 | I 'll swear the boy was alone , he told me himself the enterprise was his own . |
| 9 | So who told you what a useful person that old gossip Mary Flock was ? |
| 10 | If I told you what the wine cost , you would n't dare drink it . ’ |
| 11 | Well it told you what the subject titles were . |
| 12 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him what a predicament he 'd caused , ’ said Janet , 52 . |
| 14 | He was overjoyed when Alan showed him his plans , and told him what the different symbols meant , so that the lines on the paper became a living world of houses , roads and trees . |
| 15 | She told him what the old lady had said . |
| 16 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 17 | She apparently threatened to leave him unless he told her who the person was . |