Example sentences of "told [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |
| 2 | For some months the engineers tried to obstruct and by-pass Smith , until Hacking told them firmly that there must be a considerable change of heart by all concerned to work together . |
| 3 | Glad of the diversion , I said , ‘ Someone told me today that the bad weather was caused by all the cannon-balls discharged on the Field of Waterloo last year . ’ |
| 4 | A few seconds later we were plunging thought atmosphere , and Posi told me cheerfully that one of the in-phase ceptors had locked on to Mala 's position . |
| 5 | Kalchu told me later that the butchering and apportioning of meat strictly follows precedent . |
| 6 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 7 | ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me . |
| 8 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 9 | A Munich brewer told me derisively that Weissbier was a local term from Swabia ( to the west ) . |
| 10 | In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long . |
| 11 | People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city . |
| 12 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 13 | Someone told me afterwards that when I went like that |
| 14 | ‘ You never told me before that you did n't like my company , Catherine ! ’ cried Heathcliff . |
| 15 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 16 | A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ? |
| 17 | Yet a taxi driver told me recently that more money should be spent on Aids than on dementia because more people would die from it . |
| 18 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
| 19 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 20 | and I did hear , somebody told me like that the reason erm house prices shot up , you went three times as a a as high in value in what a matter of moments |
| 21 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 22 | A member of my staff for instance , trying to report sickness absence , told me yesterday that she dialled our number and had to wait more than four minutes before being answered . |
| 23 | You told me yesterday that you hated the idea of marriage because you could n't stand jealous , possessive men . ’ |
| 24 | The caterers told me yesterday that they 've got thirty thousand people being wined and dined here in this tented village over the three days . |
| 25 | Mm , they told me though that there 's too much money coming in the house , you , you , you 're only allowed to have I think it 's about sixty something |
| 26 | My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped . |
| 27 | ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another . |
| 28 | She told me once that Spiritualists ate sweets during the service . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure exactly where they 're stored , but Tiare told me once that her father ’ — that sounded an odd description of Gauguin — ‘ had given her mother instructions on how to protect them . |
| 30 | Without waiting , I asked her , ‘ You told me once that you 'd seen Sister Kenny treat a polio patient . ’ |