Example sentences of "had told [pron] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 4 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry about your father , ’ Ross had told her one morning before leaving for work . |
| 6 | It was the happening that we Hastings children had dreaded ever since our Junior School Headmaster , who also taught Physics , had told us one day in class . |