Example sentences of "someone [vb past] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone had told her that Jerome was dead and had waited for her to cry . |
| 2 | Someone had told him , ‘ Daddy peed into Mummy on their honeymoon and that was how you were born . ’ |
| 3 | Dot wished someone had told Mrs Hollidaye this before , then she would n't have wasted all that food feeding her up . |
| 4 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 5 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 6 | If someone had told him a nuclear bomb was targeted on County Limerick , he 'd he delighted that his heating bills would be reduced . |
| 7 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 8 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 9 | And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water . |
| 10 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |
| 11 | THAT 'S GREAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT … |
| 12 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 13 | I wish someone had told me he was vegetarian : I could have made an omelette . |
| 14 | If someone had told her what was going to happen she would have laughed in their face . |
| 15 | R said that he did not really know F beforehand but had seen him and his brothers once before when someone had told him who F was . |
| 16 | Unfortunately other people in the camp had by then also realised her condition and someone had told her brother . |
| 17 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 18 | Someone had told him there might be some snow there . |
| 19 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone had told him that if he had his way , he 'd like to kill him . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I 'd heard someone had told the police where I was hanging out . |
| 22 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 23 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 24 | He shuffled a bit at that , shrinking into his green trenchcoat which someone had told him was yuppily fashionable . |
| 25 | He also wore metal frame square glasses because someone had told him he looked tough in them . |
| 26 | If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke . |
| 27 | If someone had told me after Blackburn that Everton would be third from bottom a few , short weeks later , I would have told them they were living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 28 | Someone had told her . |