Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
| 5 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
| 6 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
| 7 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 8 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 9 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 10 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 11 | I 'd told him . |
| 12 | I 'd told him in his office it would do no good , but he insisted . |
| 13 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 14 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 15 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 16 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 17 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 18 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 19 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 20 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 21 | I had told him that I had met Fairfax . |
| 22 | If I had told him I wished he was dead he would have seen this as a palimpsest of desire , but I only wished that he was n't there . |
| 23 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 24 | I had told him that I had a brother and sister and that my mother was a widow . |
| 25 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 26 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 27 | ‘ And Jean-Paul can be as stubborn as a mule , and you knew perfectly well that if you 'd told him what you felt , he would have dug in his heels and insisted . ’ |
| 28 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 29 | I thought you 'd told him I were having a couple of days |
| 30 | He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car . |