Example sentences of "[vb past] told he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 2 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 3 | Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will . |
| 4 | Elder Wiggs had told him all about Spanish Fork . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 7 | ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago . |
| 8 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 9 | John 's father had told him vague stories about a grandfather who was said to have spent his time in mysterious pursuits of his own , returning home at intervals to sire another child before disappearing again . |
| 10 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 13 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 14 | somebody had told him that . |
| 15 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |