Example sentences of "had tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 2 | Endill presumed it was the box of questions the Bookman had told him about . |
| 3 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 4 | Rubberneck , sometimes — Meg had told him about St Francis , his favourite saint — thought of them as birds . |
| 5 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 6 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 7 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 8 | nobody 'd told him , and then when I got in touch with him erm he said no nobody had told him about it . |
| 9 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 10 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 11 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 12 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 13 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 14 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 15 | Greeting Coleman like an old friend , although they had met only once before , Hurley said Sasser had told him about Condor Television and its plans for covering events in Lebanon , and how about joining him for lunch ? |
| 16 | He wished the coroner had told him about this ! |
| 17 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 18 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 19 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 20 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 21 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 22 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 23 | Mr Turner , of South Humberside , said : ‘ I was so pleased when he called all his neighbours had told him about it . |
| 24 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 25 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 26 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 27 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 28 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 29 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 30 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |