Example sentences of "had tell [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 2 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 3 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 4 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 5 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 6 | Kenneth had told him the story , years ago , about when Fergus put Lachy Watt 's eye out ; he 'd stuck a fossil bone in it , or something . |
| 7 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 8 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 9 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 10 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 11 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 12 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 13 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 14 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 15 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 16 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 17 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 18 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 19 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 20 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 21 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 22 | She said that Derek had told her the whole story . |
| 23 | She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it . |
| 24 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 25 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |
| 26 | Clive had told her the boat could sleep six quite comfortably when the settees on either side of the drop-leaf dining table were converted into sea-bunks . |
| 27 | Keeping her voice as detached as possible , she gave her mother a brief — and heavily expurgated — resumé of what Luke had told her the day of their sightseeing trip . |
| 28 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 29 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 30 | If he had told her the truth , she would not have believed him . |