Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already told him where she kept it … and he was afraid that if he left it there it 'd be traced back to him . |
| 2 | Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone . |
| 3 | ‘ God , I did n't realise I 'd even told him . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd even told him to take La Tour Monchauzet and Antoinette with it , she recalled , wincing . |
| 5 | Flustered by his presence , thrown off balance by the feel of his hard body against her own , she suddenly clamped her mouth shut , horrified to realise she 'd almost told him she 'd been rushing to get to him . |
| 6 | And they 'd never told him . |
| 7 | Oh , help , she thought , wishing with all she had that she 'd never told him that she was twenty-two . |
| 8 | had basically told him he lived in the Stansted catchment area and we did n't need to do a deal with him , and that 's what irritated him |
| 9 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 10 | The success of ‘ The Locomotion ’ confirmed what Gary Ashley 's instincts had already told him . |
| 11 | One glance confirmed what the noise had already told him . |
| 12 | My mother had already told him that she did n't know the answer to this question . |
| 13 | Tersteeg had finally told him venomously : ‘ You failed before and you 'll fail again — it 'll be the same story all over again . ’ |
| 14 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 15 | Cowley sat stiffly in one of the leather armchairs , not at all happy with what Hogan had just told him . |
| 16 | She had just told him she was tired of waiting and would find someone else . |
| 17 | Dexter saw Lancaster 's eyes flicker as he registered the implications of what Blanche had just told him . |
| 18 | I had just told him that on my arrival in South Africa I received a pressing invitation to Rhodesia , where I am now writing . |
| 19 | She had always told him never , under any circumstances , to let other people know their private business . |
| 20 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 21 | He held him firmly , as his parents had always told him to do , and after a battle of wills , staring at him all the time , the leprechaun began to weaken . |
| 22 | That 's what Bartholomew Burghgesh had always told him to do . |
| 23 | ‘ Cara Kingsdale , ’ she replied , and , while he ignored the fact that she had yesterday told him that her name was Fabia , she again experienced an uncomfortable feeling at having to lie to him . |
| 24 | Nobody had ever told him . |
| 25 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 26 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 27 | He knew women could n't resist flowers — Karen had once told him so . |
| 28 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 29 | He recalled something the Operations Manager , Mr Amin , had once told him . |
| 30 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |