Example sentences of "had tell i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 2 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 3 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 4 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 5 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 6 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |