Example sentences of "[conj] i had tell he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 11 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 12 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |