Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 2 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 3 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 4 | But you should have told me the truth from the beginning . |
| 5 | ‘ I think she ought … to have told him the truth — or else refused him … |
| 6 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 7 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 8 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 9 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 10 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |
| 11 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 12 | Now you 'll all know that I 've told you the truth ! ’ he shouted . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that I 've told you the truth , you do n't need to fear . |
| 14 | I 've told you the truth , exactly as it happened . |
| 15 | ‘ I swear I 've told you the truth about the drugs . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've told you the truth . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've told you the truth . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I swear I have told you the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ But I really have told you the truth , ’ she said as firmly as she could . |