Example sentences of "[vb past] told [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 2 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 3 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 4 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 5 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 7 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 8 | somebody had told him that . |
| 9 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 10 | Mr Parry said the surgeon , John Miles , had told them that today would be ‘ the critical time when they will see if he can breathe unaided . ’ |
| 11 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 12 | But he had not asked after her ; unsuspected questioning of her mother had told her that . |
| 13 | He had told her that himself . |
| 14 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |