Example sentences of "she [vb past] tell [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 2 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 4 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 5 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 6 | One thing emphasised by every girl here who had delayed telling her parents about her pregnancy was that looking back , each wished she 'd told them earlier , since the consequences were never as bad as she 'd feared . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you think me shameless for telling you I want you so badly , ’ she 'd told him shyly . |
| 8 | He 'd once used almost those exact words , and she seemed to recall that she 'd told him not to be so crude . |
| 9 | They had n't made an arrangement to meet , even , she had visitors coming for the night , official ones to see her father , she had to help him ‘ entertain' , she 'd told him not to phone at all . |
| 10 | Then , when she began to tell me how it happened , and what you 'd told her , about Gittel and the curse , the scales fell from my eyes . |
| 11 | She started telling us how she had a bell which she rang if she needed help and I said I 'd listen out for it . |
| 12 | He was very quiet and she decided to tell him there and then . |
| 13 | More , she had to tell him so . |
| 14 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 15 | However , Paige , suddenly overwhelmed by too much emotion , would n't budge a step until she had told him why she was there . |
| 16 | She had told him over and over again the sequence of events on the boat . |
| 17 | If that was true , it occurred to her that he had n't really believed what she had told him tonight , but whether he did nor not , it did n't alter the central fact that they were never going to be lovers . |
| 18 | Maggie noted his rather irritated expression and wished she had told him straight away . |
| 19 | She had told him where she was booked , and at that stage he had n't reacted at all . |
| 20 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 21 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 22 | But later he had talked to her and she had told him how she , too , wanted , indeed was determined to be an actress one day , and he had looked quite serious , and offered to take her to watch a rehearsal and meet the cast . |
| 23 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 24 | It would not be simple at all , because nothing she had told him so far had been trusted . |
| 25 | She knew , for she had told him so that first night , that her situation , alone , unchaperoned , unprotected — and that was the worst of it ! — laid her open to advances . |
| 26 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 27 | ‘ She wanted to tell you so many things , but you were too busy talking to listen . |