Example sentences of "told [pron] he [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mangon told them he had been unable to get work permits for a show at another venue . |
| 2 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 3 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 4 | He told me he 'd been to . |
| 5 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 6 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 7 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 8 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 9 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 10 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day . |
| 12 | He told me he had been in Austria and he mentioned how ‘ handsome ’ he had found the people . |
| 13 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 14 | and she said , I told you he had been licking , she said oh , even with the licking , that 's excellent I 'm very pleased . |
| 15 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 16 | The speech sent shock waves through the medical profession , but the Prince had hit a nerve and , for all the criticism that was heaped on his head in the aftermath , the letters from the public told him he had been right . |
| 17 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 18 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 19 | A sudden exclamation told him he had been spotted . |
| 20 | Before Lee 's win , Lingdale 's Stephen Swales had lost a controversial majority points decision to Peterborough 's Liam Maltby at junior A 45kg even Maltby told him he had been robbed . |
| 21 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 22 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 23 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 24 | ‘ But they were dashed when the Foreign Office told us he had been jailed . ’ |
| 25 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 26 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |