Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] told [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that the hospital should have told them a new machine was n't being bought . |
| 2 | But you should have told me the truth from the beginning . |
| 3 | I should have told you the Huns have balloons the way you have the runs , but they are short of skilled observers ? |
| 4 | I could 've told it no different . ’ |
| 5 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 6 | I could have told you every single item of food I had in the cupboard every , down to the last bean ! |
| 7 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 8 | You could have told it a mile away . |
| 9 | Not to mention our hospitaller who may have told us a pack of lies . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think she would have told me a , a lie . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 13 | The letter which you received from the Director of Education will have told you the reason for the Council 's decision to refuse a place at the school(s) you wanted your child to go to . |
| 14 | John will have told you the way we operate er we we we er we |