Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] told [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 2 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 3 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 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 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 7 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 8 | She wished Peter had told her more about the situation before getting her involved . |
| 9 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 10 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 11 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 12 | But he had not asked after her ; unsuspected questioning of her mother had told her that . |