Example sentences of "[vb past] told [pers pn] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him she 'd have to go back to work and he had laughingly agreed , making some quip about being escort to a star and hitting the gossip columns . |
| 2 | He 'd told her he 'd come to Dynmouth to help old Canon Flewett . |
| 3 | Anyway , the Old Man — well , he called me into the Sanctum this morning and said , had I heard anything from you , and I said no , and he said silly bitch , or words to that effect — with which I agree — said he 'd told you you should keep in touch with me . |
| 4 | Sheriff William Reid had told him he could face prison but it would help if the university got its money back . |
| 5 | Mrs Wilson had told him he should get out of the house more . |
| 6 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 7 | A few months before , if anyone had told him you could feel dislike for your own child , a real aversion from your own flesh and blood , he would not have believed them . |
| 8 | Uncle Walter had told him you could get to Australia by digging . |
| 9 | She had told him she would try to come , and her non-appearance added to the depression caused by the theme . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently Ainley had told them he would try to force-land on a beach just after they flew near some naval ships . |
| 11 | And she said , ‘ They said that her mother had told them you would marry . ’ |
| 12 | The local weather forecaster had told me we 'd get rain and we did . |
| 13 | Benjamin had told me he would return to Le Coq d'Or ; every morning and each evening I went there but no Benjamin . |
| 14 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 15 | With its large , carved buttons running diagonally from shoulder to hip , it was one of her favourites and so becoming , Félix had told her she might keep it . |
| 16 | Camillo had told her she would run away , and come back . |
| 17 | He had told her she would have to be an outlaw because of her heritage . |
| 18 | If somebody had told her she 'd find herself in this same dubious position all over again , even one hour ago , she would have laughed right in their face . |
| 19 | She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
| 21 | As they had lain together in the glorious lethargy which followed passion , Vitor had told her he would go for the petrol , but that he would go alone . |
| 22 | He seemed to have meant it when he had told her he would leave her on her own until she was in a more reasonable frame of mind . |
| 23 | He had told her he might bring Marianne over to meet her and to see the show if they could take time out from all the wedding preparations . |
| 24 | If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke . |
| 25 | For the next two years his health remained stable although the hospital had told us he might have more mini-strokes . |
| 26 | The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us . |