Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah I did tell you the truth |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 5 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |
| 8 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 9 | In terms of prospecting , I usually do the training exhibition at the N E C every July , er , in eighty six , a man came onto my stand and we chatted for half an hour , he then said to tell you the truth I 'm not interested now , but I will be interested next May . |
| 10 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 11 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 12 | He wanted to tell her the truth , every known particle of it . |