Example sentences of "told i [adv] he " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He told me when he gave me this one . ’
2 He did n't discuss it with me beforehand , just told me when he got back . ’
3 He told me when he was dying .
4 " Devraux told me today he is going to Canton again soon , " he said in an excited whisper when his wife came to plunge her arms in the suds beside him .
5 He was married , you see , but he told me today he 'd left his wife .
6 on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer
7 He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist .
8 Siah Armanjani once told me how he used to see the movies in his native Persia in the 1950s .
9 As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love .
10 One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force .
11 He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit .
12 Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet .
13 I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women .
14 He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover .
15 He told me how he worked his candy or piece of common-yard , dividing it into two by a path , and growing wheat on one side and vegetables on the other , changing over the crops each year .
16 He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh .
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