Example sentences of "had told [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So one hopes , ’ said Jared , amused at these revelations confirming what his daughter had told him two days ago . |
| 2 | John 's father had told him vague stories about a grandfather who was said to have spent his time in mysterious pursuits of his own , returning home at intervals to sire another child before disappearing again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 5 | Celia served the cold cucumber soup hot , and burnt the steak even though Christina had told her numerous times that Stephen liked his steak rare . |
| 6 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |
| 7 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 8 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |