Example sentences of "[vb past] told [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 6 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ I wish he 'd told me this himself . ’ |
| 9 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 10 | I should have thought he 'd told you all about it by now , or do n't you two ever communicate properly ? |
| 11 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 12 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 13 | Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will . |
| 14 | Elder Wiggs had told him all about Spanish Fork . |
| 15 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 16 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 19 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 20 | somebody had told him that . |
| 21 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 24 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |
| 25 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 30 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |