Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's a pest , cull it properly , get the authorities in , we 've got more and more specialists sitting in those chambers telling us what to do on farming issues , on B S E , we 've got coming , we 've got a a team of experts , well not one of them has told said gone down in favour of hunting . |
| 2 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |
| 3 | And I got told off for it . |
| 4 | I got told to take care of a young Scotch bobby , not far from my own home . |
| 5 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 6 | Three hundred , I got told . ’ |
| 7 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 8 | any more well I got told there 's one . |
| 9 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 10 | This was at Bangor and then I got another number and then I got told that they now have the direct organisation |
| 11 | I got told last night . |
| 12 | I got told off for calling it Pakistan . |
| 13 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 14 | I realised it was only my ego wanting to control this thing , and that it was n't a natural evolutionary step as I 'd told myself . |
| 15 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 16 | I told her what I 'd told Erica at Tremayne 's dinner , and said it might not lead to anything helpful . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 18 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 19 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 20 | Then she came back on the line and faithfully repeated everything I 'd told her , and everything I 'd asked . |
| 21 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |
| 22 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 23 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
| 24 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
| 25 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 26 | Stupid woman — I 'd told her to put you through if you called . ’ |
| 27 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 28 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 29 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
| 30 | Because I 'd told her it was funny this doctor never even touched her before he sent her in there . |