Example sentences of "[vb infin] told [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you 'd 've told us that last Thursday we 'd 've thought |
| 2 | Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no . |
| 3 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 4 | Her mother , who had been fading hitherto , returned to fill the black hole by the kitchen sink or to confront Helen on the stairs , saying smugly that she could have told her all along what to expect . |
| 5 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 6 | I told her of my mother Elethandian , your wife , and I would have told her more but she began to scream at me . |
| 7 | ‘ You might have told me that . ’ |
| 8 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 9 | I said , well , you could have told me that to tell her ! |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , ’ Harry said as they neared the station , ‘ if I had n't found that letter last night and thrown you out , would you have told me all this ? ’ |
| 11 | Ah 'm sure he will have told ye that on the phone . ’ |
| 12 | Something which as the Argentines were in no circumstances , ah , going to settle for , ah , and anybody could have told them that , and anybody knew that . |
| 13 | As a matter of fact , any reader of the Daily Worker could have told them that . |
| 14 | You should have told them that about the poppy seeds . |
| 15 | She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more . |
| 16 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 17 | If nothing else , the appearance of the terrace , arranged like a huge bed , would have told him that . |
| 18 | Two out of the three instances ( " I don " t believe any of that … " ( p. 71 ) and " How could I have told him that ? |
| 19 | It must be getting very obvious , Gina thought , frightened by his frankness and aware that she could n't easily have told someone that . |
| 20 | And he goes no , he goes oh I 'm surprised I thought Johnny would have told you all of it . |
| 21 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 22 | Buchanan could have told you that . |
| 23 | But where they fell down , they should have told you that was what would happen |
| 24 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 25 | I think John will have told you that . |
| 26 | No I would but I would have told you that on the phone . |
| 27 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 28 | Could have told you that . |
| 29 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 30 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |