Example sentences of "had told [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 2 | Her eyes had been open in a fixed and vacant stare , and the waxen tinge to her skin had told its own tale . |
| 3 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 4 | Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will . |
| 5 | Elder Wiggs had told him all about Spanish Fork . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 8 | ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 14 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 15 | somebody had told him that . |
| 16 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They had ignored the seriousness of the news bulletins that night and taken a trip down the Mersey on the Royal Iris to celebrate the finishing of their bedroom , though Mr Chamberlain had told them next day that they were at war with Germany . |
| 24 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 25 | Celia served the cold cucumber soup hot , and burnt the steak even though Christina had told her numerous times that Stephen liked his steak rare . |
| 26 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |
| 27 | As Vass had told her last night , the damage was n't too bad . |
| 28 | This , Gaston had told her last night , was a local custom which indicated the popularity of the bride in the community . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |