Example sentences of "[conj] i told " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 2 | I never took them far from home , although I told Nonni I intended to in order to prevent her accompanying me , inventing expeditions to the common where she might tear her stockings on the brambles , or to the recreation ground which was a mile away , too far for her to walk in high-heeled shoes . |
| 3 | My self-esteem disappeared and I felt worthless , although I told myself that I was still an attractive woman , that there was no need to feel sexually inadequate . ’ |
| 4 | They will obviously be an extremely happy couple , although I told Miss Ingram something about the Rochester property which made her look quite depressed . |
| 5 | I mean , I let him spend all that money on me , and although I told myself it was fair , it was n't . |
| 6 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 7 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 8 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 9 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 10 | " But I 've come to say that I told the police station 43 is an agreed squat . |
| 11 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , after the first six or seven freebies things got a little hazy and I understand that I told everyone that Singh and his brothers ( no relation ) were indeed going to build a superstore on ‘ The Tip ’ , but that they were also going to spend £2,000,000 on a new stadium for Athletico to be built on top of Mitchley cemetery . |
| 13 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 14 | When you asked how Tom and the children were , you must have thought it odd that I told you what Tom , and Alison and Cheryl were doing without really mentioning Peter . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry that I told you now . |
| 16 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 17 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 18 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 19 | And all the lies that I told you were to try to escape the lie that was my life . |
| 20 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The allegations that I told Mr Sugar that Mr Clough liked a bung are untrue . |
| 22 | We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you |
| 23 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 24 | I 've only just got here , and I really have n't heard anything more than I told you . |
| 25 | ‘ Whatever happens , son , go on looking holy and do n't say a word more than I told you . |
| 26 | ( ‘ Whatever happens , son , do n't say a word more than I told you . |
| 27 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 28 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 29 | I thought they were beautiful in their male hardness and power , so I told him : ‘ Dana , your hands are perfect , front and back . ’ |
| 30 | All the youths seemed interested , so I told them stories of Black Magic in Sussex , a county particularly afflicted by Satan because of all the artistic people who live there , running craft shops or theatrical costumiers . |