Example sentences of "told [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Something which as the Argentines were in no circumstances , ah , going to settle for , ah , and anybody could have told them that , and anybody knew that .
2 Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart .
3 As a matter of fact , any reader of the Daily Worker could have told them that .
4 I 've told them that Tig is the new guardian of the threshold .
5 ‘ We have told them that , ’ said the other sheikh unexpectedly .
6 Well that 's because somebody has told them that bald is ugly , bald is n't ugly , it 's .
7 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 . ’
8 But erm they 've told them that they better keep to the peace agreement .
9 You should have told them that about the poppy seeds .
10 I do n't know who else I could have turned to , have told them all of this . ’
11 You 've told them all what happened to your friends in the jeweller 's .
12 She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more .
13 At the end of the day , Wilko knows what he s told them all to do .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I 've told them many times that she no longer lives here , ’ said Mr Taylor , of Newstead Road .
16 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 .
17 I would like to have told them both that on that occasion the crack had sailed over my head .
18 He was n't badly hurt but people have since told me that shock sometimes starts the onset of diabetes .
19 ‘ I do n't think you 've ever told me that ! ’ said Donald , sounding peeved to have elicited an original statement from Henry while on licensed premises .
20 I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this .
21 ‘ It 's my home , they 've always told me that .
22 People have told me that before .
23 I know you do n't — you 've told me that before .
24 Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it .
25 Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment .
26 ‘ You might have told me that . ’
27 He has told me that … ’
28 ‘ I know ; you 've told me that .
29 Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation .
30 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 .
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