Example sentences of "[indef pn] told [pers pn] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone will say : ‘ Oh , someone told me that they take drugs at that party . ’ |
| 2 | But someone told me that it is not the same as the passion fruit on sale at the shops and that the fruits are poisonous . |
| 3 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 4 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 5 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 6 | But nobody told her that her face was a pretty heart-shape . |
| 7 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 8 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 9 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 10 | Somebody told me that he had that built . |
| 11 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 12 | I 'm sure somebody told me that she was working with the trainee at er |
| 13 | With a foreboding which Harriet had experienced more than once in her life , something told her that they were in for trouble . |
| 14 | But something told her that she probably did not . |
| 15 | But something told her that she could trust him more than any of her so-called friends . |