Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] told [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 2 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 3 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 4 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 5 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 6 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 7 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 8 | Rosemary had once told her the amount she was paying in rent . |
| 9 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |
| 10 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |