Example sentences of "[conj] i had tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 2 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 3 | She said that I had to tell my parents . |
| 4 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 5 | I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff . |
| 6 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 7 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 8 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 9 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 10 | And I had told nobody , not Ella Llewellyn , nobody . |
| 11 | It was like a little explosion because it was n't just a question of telling one other person ; I had to tell my parents and I had to tell all my schoolfriends and make sure that my world existed and to a great extent it did . |
| 12 | And er he called me in , I had the cane for that and I had to tell the mess boy . |
| 13 | He wanted to know where Miss Stapleton was , and I had to tell him twice that there was no sign of her in the house . |
| 14 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 16 | ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’ |
| 17 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 18 | If I had told them him they would have found out my name . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 23 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And he added : ‘ I thanked my team for trying hard after the game , but I had to tell them they were outplayed by a better team . |
| 26 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 27 | It would probably kill my mum but I had to tell them . |
| 28 | I know you need time , but I had to tell you . |
| 29 | I did at first when I lost my son but I had to tell myself it was an accident , ’ she said . |
| 30 | I did when I lost my son but I had to tell myself it was an accident ’ Louise Davies |