Example sentences of "[noun] would [adv] [verb] told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni would probably have told him before if she 'd seen him . |
| 2 | THE policemen on the gate of Downing Street would normally have told him to clear off , dressed as he was in an ill-fitting tweed jacket and blue moon boots — and was n't that an ice-axe in his right hand ? |
| 3 | Had the bodies been those of the missing S.A.S. troops , I reasoned , then they could no longer have been ‘ missing ’ , and the Padre would certainly had told me about their discovery . |
| 4 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 5 | ‘ And now you 've seen Jenny , have you learned anything that letter or telephone conversation would not have told you ? ’ |
| 6 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |