Example sentences of "when he told i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 2 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 3 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 4 | One of the speakers that evening was Gordon Gissing , so I had no hesitation when he told me about his visit to a picturesque narrow ( metre ) gauge system in East Germany , and offered to give us a talk on it . |
| 5 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |