Example sentences of "'d told " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car . |
| 2 | He 'd told Lee he would come , had n't he ? |
| 3 | Eleanor immediately pointed out that he had n't exactly held his wife , who was thoroughly unfaithful if half the tales he 'd told were true . |
| 4 | She 'd told Dot there 'd got to be the ordinary people too so that the few could be visibly valiant . |
| 5 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 6 | I realised it was only my ego wanting to control this thing , and that it was n't a natural evolutionary step as I 'd told myself . |
| 7 | I said , ‘ If you 'd told me that while I was in the pool , you 'd have seen another miracle walking on the water ! ’ |
| 8 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 9 | I told her what I 'd told Erica at Tremayne 's dinner , and said it might not lead to anything helpful . |
| 10 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 11 | That 's what he 'd told them , and now they were waiting . |
| 12 | The chap who 'd called out was the one in the pub who 'd told Mary Mauchline to go and rattle her can , the same Mary Mauchline he now held in his arms . |
| 13 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 15 | I 'd met Kristin and Sabine that morning and they 'd told me to come over and described where they were now living . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 17 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |
| 18 | ‘ Like a fool , I told her that the only reason I 'd married her was because she 'd told me she was pregnant . |
| 19 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 20 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 21 | Bill felt like a weight had been taken from him now that he 'd told her . |
| 22 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 23 | Then she came back on the line and faithfully repeated everything I 'd told her , and everything I 'd asked . |
| 24 | When she 'd been selected , and automatically compelled to leave the Navy , taking an appointment at a civilian hospital , he 'd told himself that it was his duty to visit her to see that she was settled in … not lonely . |
| 25 | Jed had seen a street in Westwood that was called Success Avenue , and he 'd told Mitch about it . |
| 26 | ‘ My name 's Jed , ’ he 'd told her , more times than he could remember , but every time he passed her door she called out , ‘ Matt , honey , is that you ? ’ |
| 27 | And so he 'd told Celia the truth . |
| 28 | Pete was the one who 'd told him . |
| 29 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 30 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |