Example sentences of "had [not/n't] told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He understood at once why she had not told him ; he remembered the glass of milk in the café , and for the first time in weeks he was able to weep . |
| 2 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 3 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
| 4 | Oliver asked Cobalt whether Barbara Coleman had not told him she suspected Joseph of murder . |
| 5 | They had not told him they were not going back to Antibes and she saw no point in trying to talk to him about Maurin or Sabine Jourdain or Barbara Coleman while he was in this state . |
| 6 | She had not told him . |
| 7 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 8 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 9 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 10 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 11 | She had not told him what Ana had said to her and it was time that he knew . |
| 12 | Miss Warburton said she had not told him how she felt , but once he had asked her if she loved him . |
| 13 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 14 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 15 | My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information . |
| 16 | — No , said Davin , but I wish you had not told me . |
| 17 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 18 | I was upset and angry because he had not told me his plans . |
| 19 | ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me . |
| 20 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 21 | As she closed her eyes , she wondered why she had not told them about Ben right from the beginning . |
| 22 | There were things she had not told them . |
| 23 | Would it have been better if , like other men , he had not told her ? |
| 24 | He had not told her , and could not tell her , about his secret theft . |
| 25 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 26 | Since Rhodes she had known ( since he told her ) how he had met the Flemish woman in Lindos ; and had equally known ( although he had not told her ) that Katelina van Borselen had somehow been persuaded or forced into commerce with him . |
| 27 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 28 | It is implicit from her statement that , according to her , Mr. Steed , too , had not told her that he had appointed her to be his attorney . |
| 29 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |
| 30 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |