Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] told i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 2 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 3 | and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know |
| 4 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 6 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 7 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 8 | He told you that , and you told me in your letter . |
| 9 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 10 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 11 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 12 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
| 13 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 14 | We nibbled olives and she told me about Italy . |
| 15 | Betty 's seen it and she told me about it . |
| 16 | Until you told me about Amy , I did n't guess , that either . ’ |
| 17 | IF YOU TOLD ME TO , YES . |
| 18 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 20 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 21 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 22 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 23 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 24 | and he told me about Thomas the Tank engine , everywhere we went |
| 25 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 26 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 27 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 28 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 29 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 30 | We walked solemnly around Gloucester in and out of the Cathedral precincts while he told me about his childhood . |