Example sentences of "had tell [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 2 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 3 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 4 | Greeting Coleman like an old friend , although they had met only once before , Hurley said Sasser had told him about Condor Television and its plans for covering events in Lebanon , and how about joining him for lunch ? |
| 5 | Rubberneck , sometimes — Meg had told him about St Francis , his favourite saint — thought of them as birds . |
| 6 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 7 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 8 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 9 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 10 | ‘ You got ta understand about America ’ , an old black man had told him in Washington DC , ‘ it 's a fucking capitalist nightmare . ’ |
| 11 | Forty days of rain , as God had told him in advance . |
| 12 | It does n't occur to them that if they had told them about contraceptives , they would not be pregnant . |
| 13 | Joshua Morris had told them of Felicity 's impending arrival , and-ordered a light supper at seven to be eaten in their room . |
| 14 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 15 | THAT 'S GREAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT … |
| 16 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 17 | From what Neil had told me over supper last night , I knew that the main bird colonies were on the western side of the island , where the cliffy coastline was cut into deep gullies , some of them sheer , and some filled with tumbles of massed boulders . |
| 18 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 19 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 20 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't worry , love , ’ Faye had told her with authority . |
| 22 | It was her mother who had told her about Timothy 's frequent visits to the village of Yelton , and Tipper who had confirmed her mistress 's story , adding that Amsterdam was a gormless idiot and Topaz Chilcott a dirty slut . |
| 23 | For the first time since he had told her about Carol , Helen found that she could think about Adrian with something like calm . |
| 24 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |
| 25 | What was it he had told her in Tivoli ? |
| 26 | They had told her in hospital that the glass had cut into an artery and she had needed transfusions but although she had felt far from well this morning she was certainly feeling worse now . |