Example sentences of "told i he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E told me 'e might be late an' not ter wait up , ’ Sadie went on . |
| 2 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 3 | Afterwards in the pub someone told me he would probably be sent down . |
| 4 | Kenny told me he trained this morning , but was still feeling the injury , and that there was no point in him coming . |
| 5 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 6 | Once he told me he likes me cos I do n't ask questions . |
| 7 | He told me he 'd come back tomorrow , and then he went off . |
| 8 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 9 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The Prime Minister told me he would discuss the details with his officials and come back to us . |
| 11 | Because Mr Karajan told me he was a very great conductor — that was the last message he gave me . ’ |
| 12 | Undeterred by an evasive reply , he told me he could even provide a reliable guide who would conduct me across the border . |
| 13 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 14 | Now he told me he wanted to end it with Susan , and he begged my help and would I come down to New Orleans . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He told me he did n't think he could be the Nelson Algren of his generation , ’ Vanderford says . |
| 16 | ‘ She told me he 'd come to take pictures of her throwing knives in the bedroom . |
| 17 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 18 | Was it marijuana , which he told me he had smoked ? |
| 19 | He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others . |
| 20 | He told me he was also in revolt against his strict puritan upbringing , a fairly common case in the sons of God-fearing Americans . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me he was round Madge 's this morning — He might have put them back — in her cardi pocket or somewhere . |
| 22 | I could swear that he told me he did n't know ! |
| 23 | ‘ And he told me he did for Mr Bishop . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me he 'd posted that letter and sent my Christmas card home . ’ |
| 25 | Daniel told me he liked to stroll about on such evenings , discovering these momentary beauties which accidents of light or shade or unsuspected angles of perspective brought back untarnished from former days . |
| 26 | He told me he was just visiting to let me know he would come for me soon , but not just yet . |
| 27 | When I said I was a feminist he became abrupt , as if his time was precious , and told me he could n't help me . |
| 28 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 30 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |