Example sentences of "have told him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before .
2 Maybe she should have told him fifty quid .
3 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 .
4 If nothing else , the appearance of the terrace , arranged like a huge bed , would have told him that .
5 Two out of the three instances ( " I don " t believe any of that … " ( p. 71 ) and " How could I have told him that ?
6 Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways .
7 Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will .
8 Elder Wiggs had told him all about Spanish Fork .
9 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 .
10 He wondered why she had told him all this .
11 ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night .
17 Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him .
18 somebody had told him that .
19 She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself .
20 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 .
21 He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon .
22 I 've told him four times .
23 I 've told him that 's
24 I 've told him this !
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