Example sentences of "told [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists have told me this could be the final push that will consign up to 250,000 people to the scrap heap . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why have you never told me this before ? ’ |
| 3 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 4 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 7 | " Why has n't someone told me this before ? |
| 8 | Had Edward told me this I would not have believed . |
| 9 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ I wish he 'd told me this himself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ From what you 've told me this constable knows as much as Boz about the man who attacked Anna , but he 's made no arrest yet . ’ |
| 12 | And they said , Well okay I can tell you right now you 've , how many appointments have you told me this week , this is the guy back at camp . |
| 13 | I 'm , I 'm now erm having you , having you told me this having you said that , you just look at that |
| 14 | I know you 've told me this |
| 15 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 16 | Mm , I mean you 've told me this before Mark , well I , I said to you |
| 17 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 18 | I 've told you this before , but you are a small-minded lot , really . |
| 19 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 20 | Have I told you this one before ? |
| 21 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 22 | Johann stopped for a minute , but then he added , ‘ If they know I 've told you this , they 'll kill me . |
| 23 | I know I 've told you this place might be run by these Chinese Triads , but I want everyone t'remember we 're dealin' mainly with kids here . |
| 24 | ‘ And do n't come here again , I 've told you this is private property . |
| 25 | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete . |
| 26 | That trawl will bring out a couple of dozen schemes that have totally lapsed , and people will write snotty letters saying I 've told you this once before . |
| 27 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 28 | I 'm surprised Geoff has n't told you this over the years |
| 29 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 30 | As long as you do n't go down into the attic , I 'm sure I 've told you this , he goes as long as you do n't go down into the attic . |