Example sentences of "mother [vb past] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were building up our home , ’ his mother had told him . |
| 2 | His mother had told him that even grown-ups were frightened of going into The Forest of Sin . |
| 3 | When his mother had told him , as she always told any man interested in Edith , about the bastard child , he had just smiled . |
| 4 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 5 | Asik knew that blaming God for everything was not right , his mother had told him so , but who else could have been so cruel ? |