Example sentences of "had tell [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly had told him all about Mrs Curdle and gipsies ' ways . |
| 2 | Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will . |
| 3 | Elder Wiggs had told him all about Spanish Fork . |
| 4 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 5 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 6 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 8 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 9 | somebody had told him that . |
| 10 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 11 | He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us . |
| 12 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 13 | He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again . |
| 14 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 15 | Mr Parry said the surgeon , John Miles , had told them that today would be ‘ the critical time when they will see if he can breathe unaided . ’ |
| 16 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 17 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 18 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 19 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 20 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 21 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 22 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 23 | But he had not asked after her ; unsuspected questioning of her mother had told her that . |
| 24 | He had told her that himself . |
| 25 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 26 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 27 | She wished Peter had told her more about the situation before getting her involved . |
| 28 | Hm , I think we said last time that they had to tell you this month with the money . |