Example sentences of "[noun] told me [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 2 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 3 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 4 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 5 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 6 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 7 | " 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied . |
| 9 | Signor Candiano told me scarcely anything . ’ |
| 10 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 11 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 12 | Mrs Figgis-Hewett told me yesterday you were . |
| 13 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Caroline told me later she was terribly nervous . |
| 16 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 17 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 18 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 19 | Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models . |
| 20 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 21 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |
| 22 | But Margaret told me well it was years ago up at the Germany , says his wife left him . |