Example sentences of "if i [vb past] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 2 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 3 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 4 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 5 | Yes I did know she was going to be in Caracas and No I did n't tell you and Yes that was wrong but would it have been better if I 'd told you ? |
| 6 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 7 | If I 'd told you that , you would n't have come . ’ |
| 8 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 9 | ‘ Even if I 'd told you everything , you would n't have known ‘ t was de Raimes ’ men at the ford . |
| 10 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd told you it was dinner you would have made an excuse . ’ |
| 13 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 14 | If I had told them him they would have found out my name . |
| 15 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 16 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 17 | If I had told him I wished he was dead he would have seen this as a palimpsest of desire , but I only wished that he was n't there . |
| 18 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 19 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 20 | If I had told my grandmother that it is about an extended black family , child abuse and homosexual love , then she would not have touched it ; as it was , she loved it . |