Example sentences of "had tell [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told him a lie about Auntie Lou going for a walk up the mountain and Auntie Lou did n't know what she 'd said . |
| 2 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 3 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 4 | Kenneth had told him the story , years ago , about when Fergus put Lachy Watt 's eye out ; he 'd stuck a fossil bone in it , or something . |
| 5 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 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 | He had told them a year ago that one of the main reasons he was interested in the paper was his conviction that the ‘ new realism ’ of print unions made it financially possible to seize the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 11 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 12 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |
| 13 | He had told her a lot the previous night , too much for her to take in , but the salient points stuck out clearly in her mind . |
| 14 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 15 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 16 | She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it . |
| 17 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 18 | Keeping her voice as detached as possible , she gave her mother a brief — and heavily expurgated — resumé of what Luke had told her the day of their sightseeing trip . |
| 19 | Clive had told her the boat could sleep six quite comfortably when the settees on either side of the drop-leaf dining table were converted into sea-bunks . |
| 20 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |
| 21 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 22 | Can you imagine , you know a teacher , I thought I had to tell them every minute detail of these plans . |
| 23 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 24 | I had to tell him the news myself |