Example sentences of "[noun] told i [adv] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but Edwin told me once that there was less than a dozen pictures altogether . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure exactly where they 're stored , but Tiare told me once that her father ’ — that sounded an odd description of Gauguin — ‘ had given her mother instructions on how to protect them . |
| 3 | ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me . |
| 4 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
| 5 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 6 | People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city . |
| 7 | The caterers told me yesterday that they 've got thirty thousand people being wined and dined here in this tented village over the three days . |