Example sentences of "[noun pl] told i [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 2 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 3 | Doug Mills , 49 , landlord of The Golden Ball — used as a base for the police operation — said : ‘ Customers told me he had done several tours of Northern Ireland during his service . |
| 4 | ‘ When Bonds told me they 'd succeeded in finding you , and sent me a description that tallied exactly , my first impulse was to go to England and strangle you with my bare hands . |
| 5 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 6 | Jonas told me he had n't invited you . ’ |
| 7 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 8 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 9 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 10 | 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 . |