Example sentences of "[noun prp] told [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 2 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 3 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 5 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 6 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 7 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 8 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 9 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 10 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 11 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 12 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 13 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 14 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 15 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 16 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 17 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 18 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 19 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 20 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |