Example sentences of "told me [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( Yet some instinct told me that I must be careful to give her no cause for having a grievance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 5 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 6 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 7 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ My instincts told me that I should be aware of him and everything he did . |
| 11 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 12 | My mother told me that I was cold because I did n't eat enough . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |
| 15 | He told me that I would have the interview within two days . |
| 16 | The American authorities told me that I should make a general election law and arrange that the Korean people rule themselves . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He told me that I was not badly hurt , and that the plan to catch Johann had been successful . |
| 19 | After I signed , the manager told me that I 'd remember that date for the rest of my life . |
| 20 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 21 | He told me that I would make my living with words . |
| 22 | Of course , by then I was completely on my own and the doctor told me that I must go into hospital this time at Northallerton . |
| 23 | Vlado told me that I must do as he asked — but I could simply make myself appear a fool by reporting news of no consequence . |
| 24 | Dr. Lorrimer told me that I ought to find out all I can and not just look on this job as routine . " |
| 25 | But you told me that I was boring ! |
| 26 | And they told me that I can have a job back there any time I want . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Dad , ’ she accused , ‘ you never told me that I would be sharing the house with some carpenter . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’ |
| 29 | He told me that I should take off my David Moggan — unless I was crazy . |
| 30 | The other day I had a visit from the ‘ music man ’ who told me that I needed a licence to play music in my shop . |