Example sentences of "[vb past] told [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 2 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 3 | She said , ‘ I wish he 'd told me this himself . ’ |
| 4 | He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us . |
| 5 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 6 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 7 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 8 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 9 | that copper man had told me this morning |