Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 2 | He had made Iron Josh lock up before they left — Hardy had told him that on winter Fridays the Jewish sabbath commenced in the afternoon , so no one would be surprised if the store was closed extra early . |
| 3 | " You bad little fucker , " Ashton had said , which was typical of him , Steven had told him he was a foul-mouthed ignoramus , and stuffed his various papers and forms quickly into his trouser pockets and walked off , " Here ! " |
| 4 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 5 | Scott had told him that this would be possible . |
| 6 | I went to the door last night ten minutes after Scott had told him and like , I was crying at the door , and he goes ahh , is something not wrong like , you know ? |
| 7 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 8 | Mrs. Fanshawe had told him nothing . |
| 9 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 10 | He had , Maisie had told him , been unconscious for nearly two minutes . |
| 11 | Woil had told him that where they flew golden eagles would be near . |
| 12 | When Toby had told him , Pumfrey whistled . |
| 13 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 14 | He still could not begin to imagine why , as Hitch had told him , Ray Plummer had specifically asked for him to be included . |
| 15 | One of his mentor-girls in Scotland had told him once , in all seriousness , that it was against the law to use a rubber johnny then throw it away without knotting in the dangerous efflusions . |
| 16 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 17 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 18 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 19 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 20 | Whatever Hyde had told him moments before had obviously terrified him . |
| 21 | Now , what was it Hyde had told him , two men and one other . " |
| 22 | So then Pete had told him , truthfully , word-for-word and without any embellishment ; about the shotgun , and the pigeons , and the misunderstanding on the stairs . |
| 23 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 24 | Prestige : Simon had told him that he would bequeath the pictures to the nation . |
| 25 | More than , Marenches said later that the Shah had told him , " I count on you always to tell me the disagreeable things that other people wo n't say . |
| 26 | Then Burun had told him that no one other than the true Lord of the Merkuts ever heard the sound . |
| 27 | However , it ran out in its turn as he reached the next storey , occupied , Sunil had told him , by upper servants . |
| 28 | And Hayling had told him to tone down the politics to smooth away advertisers ' fears that it was going to be a Commie rag . |
| 29 | A former fellow prisoner at Gloucester Jail , Brendan Ekworth , told the court that Gardiner had told him that White would have an accident . |
| 30 | A few days earlier , Mussolini had told him that , in his view , Spanish non-belligerency was preferable to Spanish intervention . |