Example sentences of "told [pron] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 2 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 3 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 4 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 5 | The forensic odontologist told me there had been a deliberate attempt to make the teeth match . ’ |
| 6 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 7 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 8 | Before she told him there had been a kind of subdued glory , a triumphant secret warmth had been hers . |
| 9 | WINNIN' When the Royal Sussex hospital called my wife Marlies after the bomb during the 1984 Tory Conference , they told her there had been a ‘ little accident ’ but that I was OK . |
| 10 | At least , she thought she was — until the day before her flight , when a DSD representative phoned and told her there 'd been a change of plan . |
| 11 | He told us there had been a revolution in Eastern Europe and that the Soviet Union was finished , but he could n't remember any more details . |