Example sentences of "told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 2 | And everyone told me : do n't waste your energy . |
| 3 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 4 | She told me it was your smile that did it . |
| 5 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 6 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 7 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 8 | Told me Moira F. had written to him , anxious for news about the glass , complaining that I never answered the phone , never replied to her letters , what should he tell her ? |
| 9 | Vaughan loves to cook , but finds it a punishing way to make a living : ‘ People told me that there was no job harder than nursing , ’ recalls Vaughan , ‘ but they were wrong ! |
| 10 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear you 're planning to retire so you can concentrate on writing , ’ Charles told me over tea one afternoon . |
| 12 | I had desperately wanted to rush outside and leave the whole wretched affair behind me but something told me I had to stay and face the music . |
| 13 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 14 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 15 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 16 | They told me to keep in touch and call them if I felt they could be of assistance . |
| 17 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 18 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In it , she told me she 'd had a daughter . |
| 21 | ‘ It belongs to the Customs and Excise mob , ’ she told me . |
| 22 | She told me . |
| 23 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 25 | She uttered something loud and incomprehensible in Dutch and told me she 'd meet me at the coffee shop later . |
| 26 | An inspector reading humanities at Oxford , told me : ‘ I felt cut off , with no contact back at work . |
| 27 | An expressed desire for rigidly determined geographical units separated from a despised neighbour occurs again and again in my fieldnotes , and is clearly illustrated in a note made in 1981 , when a superintendent in a somewhat remote subdivision laughingly told me : |
| 28 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 29 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 30 | ‘ Caroline told me it was cassoulet , ’ he announced . |