Example sentences of "i told you [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 3 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 4 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 6 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 7 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |
| 8 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |
| 10 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 11 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 12 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 13 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 14 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you from the start that my relationship with my ‘ harem ’ was purely a business one . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you from the beginning that Joe Landau was no good for you . |
| 18 | That 's what I told you in the boat . ’ |
| 19 | The president was admitting to voters that ‘ everything I told you in the campaign was not true , ’ said Republican Senator Phil Gramm . |