Example sentences of "told i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E told me 'e might be late an' not ter wait up , ’ Sadie went on . |
| 2 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 3 | All right , I shall have to confess , although you may be angry with me , Jane — as angry as you were last night , when you told me we were equal . |
| 4 | , this er fellow that was for in Conway told me we had to keep an extra erm for Douglas fir he says . |
| 5 | Oh , yes , I was only a girl , and he was only a boy — but when my mother told me we would n't be coming back , and that I 'd very soon forget him , I believed her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sam Hall told me they wanted me to stay on — but I would have to accept a lease , ’ John said . |
| 7 | They told me they 'd found the source and they were going to prosecute the offender . |
| 8 | ‘ They told me they could arrange an ‘ accident ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 10 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 11 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 12 | They told me they needed the money for legal fees . |
| 13 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 14 | In answer to the first the chief told me they were not allowed to divulge such information : it was classified . |
| 15 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 16 | The chairman , Martin Jay , told me they were always looking for new ideas to raise money but they want to keep it an event for the family , a rural event based on the race . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 18 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 19 | But a friend of Courtney said : ‘ Soon after they married Tom told me they had problems . |
| 20 | ‘ They told me they could sack me , but I do n't care , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ You told me they were sold . ’ |
| 22 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 23 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd much rather they told me they 're not going to harm us . ’ |
| 25 | Many prospective overseas students told me they wished to return to China to help the nation in the modernisation drive , but they may stay away ‘ a long time ’ before doing so . |
| 26 | It came as a shock to realise that nearly 20 years had passed since an enthusiastic young couple in Capel Curig told me they were going to ‘ do ’ Snowdonia that afternoon . |
| 27 | When he came back in a temper sometimes , or been drinking , Cis told me they would put Rich on the kitchen table and tell him to dance . |
| 28 | I decided , for example , that if a parent told me they had dreamt about having a ‘ Down 's baby ’ before the birth — in the medical literature , this is a classic after-the-event self-deception — they had in fact had such a dream . |
| 29 | The shop assistant there told me they would be able to take on the order for nothing . |
| 30 | 'E told me they was askin' after somebody 'e used ter know . |