Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she responded brightly when the professor 's wife told her in which part of London they had their house . |
| 2 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 3 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
| 4 | ‘ Fenella 's policeman told us . |
| 5 | Her countrywoman 's upbringing told her that he must be a gamekeeper on the estate owned by the people at Hillmarden Hall — some property developer and his wife , she believed . |
| 6 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 7 | Oh , God , they must be , Ruth 's heart told her . |
| 8 | No , the girl 's instincts told her there was something else that deeply disturbed the mistress , something secret that maybe even her own husband did n't know about . |
| 9 | Nat King Cole 's daughter told you it carried a famous name . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Mogadon hangovers were appalling , so my GP 's partner told me I needed Noctamid , another sleeper but shorter acting . ’ |
| 12 | The projects 's director told us how important Oxfam 's help is . |
| 13 | A moment 's hesitation told her that he had , and that he 'd seen . |
| 14 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 15 | A moment 's thought told her it was n't . |
| 16 | Robert 's heart told him there was hope of seeing Flossie again . |
| 17 | Michele 's grin told her he was aware of it too . |
| 18 | Janina 's father told me he had no faith in God . |
| 19 | Laurence 's friends told me — you were like it when you were a little girl , seeing things that were n't there , making up stories . |
| 20 | The cigarettes people smoked smelt different as well and his policeman 's nose told him they were not all honest virginia . |
| 21 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't care which one Tommaso likes , ’ Davide 's mother told him . |
| 23 | The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens . |
| 24 | You could not live without hope , some part of her woman 's intuition told her : while a future was left you must not . |
| 25 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 26 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , of course I 'd be willing to buy lots of mistletoe , ’ Anne 's father told them when Christine put the important question to him . |
| 28 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 29 | Tears were pouring down the girl 's face and every maternal instinct in Kate 's body told her to comfort her child . |
| 30 | Pure copper 's instinct told him that Burrows was not involved ; the alternative , however , was frightful . |