Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 4 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |
| 7 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |