Example sentences of "[conj] she had told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had told Thomas that when she broke the news ‘ anything ’ could happen , she had never envisaged this . |
| 2 | Yet love him she did although she had told him she hated him . |
| 3 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 4 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 5 | Her boyfriend was not interested and later denied that she had told him anything about it . |
| 6 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 7 | The indirect reference to Lou had been a mistake ; if he picked it up and she had to admit she knew more than she had told him , he 'd never trust her again . |
| 8 | Until she had seen him without his clothes on — so she had told herself — Jessica had not been sure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , Paige , suddenly overwhelmed by too much emotion , would n't budge a step until she had told him why she was there . |
| 11 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 12 | Maybe he and Carrie had discussed her marriage and she had told him things , secret things that were intimate to the marriage bed . |
| 13 | But later he had talked to her and she had told him how she , too , wanted , indeed was determined to be an actress one day , and he had looked quite serious , and offered to take her to watch a rehearsal and meet the cast . |
| 14 | And she had told Wynne-Jones that he had nothing to fear . |
| 15 | It was the cheapest , thinnest , shiniest material that Madge could find and she had told Therese it would just about last out the Season before you could start shooting peas through it . |
| 16 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 17 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 18 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 19 | Just her luck ; he would have believed Myra if she had told him Claudia had a twin . |
| 20 | But she had told no one . |
| 21 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 22 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 23 | But she had told him his affair was the last straw . |
| 24 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 25 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 26 | And after she had told me , I had to pirouette , sing , laugh : a fairy in a burlesque Midsummer Night 's Dream … |
| 27 | After she had told him , they had n't gone to the pictures for a month , so that he could see her home . |
| 28 | At home , Faye pronounced herself satisfied with the haircut , but her praise was given absently , and after she had told Belinda to hurry and dress as the guests were due at five , she said too casually , ‘ And before you go , love , would you get me a couple of Panadols ? |
| 29 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 30 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |