Example sentences of "[conj] told us " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the people who wrote or told us life stories : how far can they be taken as typical ? |
| 2 | As we became well known , people kept things for us or told us of toys they had spotted . |
| 3 | And it was just a pity that the material she was given or told us to read , she said was too advanced for us . |
| 4 | Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano . |
| 5 | So that told us that we had better get a full-scale defence working immediately . ’ |
| 6 | Harry invited us back though , and told us , ‘ The crack was good , ’ and Graham just smiled . |
| 7 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 8 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 9 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |
| 10 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 11 | Anyway , one day the farmer who owned the street knocked on the door and told us that my pig father was due to be made into bacon . |
| 12 | Well , the inspector came and noticed a hole in the roof and told us to mend it . |
| 13 | The doctor had n't arrived yet , but another man wrote down Sigarup 's name and village and told us to wait . |
| 14 | Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie … |
| 15 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 16 | Sue insisted that we take her telephone number and told us that we should feel able to ring her at any time , day or night , with any problem , however trivial it seemed . |
| 17 | ‘ Then the police came along and told us we should stay inside and keep away from the windows . |
| 18 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 19 | He came to us and told us so — and when a player does that , you have to leave him out . |
| 20 | One , Danny Blanchflower , called us together and told us he wanted the team to play like the great one-touch Spurs side of the 60s . |
| 21 | I could not believe it when he came in and told us . |
| 22 | The ground Hostess took one look at our tickets and told us that a gentleman was waiting to speak to us . |
| 23 | In America we met one young person who saw a picture of ours and told us he felt so happy in front of it because he did n't feel alone in the world any more . |
| 24 | The old lady fetched out another plate and cup and saucer , then she checked that our hands were clean and told us to sit down . |
| 25 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |
| 26 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 27 | We said he was stronger than he looked , but the vet turned us away and told us to bring him back when he was bigger . |
| 28 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 29 | She left a letter for me , and she did include the Purdeys in her Wall , and told us where to boil I looked , yesterday , and found the trunk empty . |
| 30 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |