Example sentences of "had told " in BNC.
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| 1 | A priest from County Galway , in a letter to the Irish Times , informed that Dr Enda McDonagh , a noted Roman catholic moral theologian , had told priests of the Tuam archdiocese in January that it was possible to make a distinction between the church 's teaching on the ideal of marriage and divorce as a civil right . |
| 2 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 3 | I sat there trying to remember all the details of what she had told me . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not having you sit home swapping the blues with Sister Gin , ’ Dionne had told Jay . |
| 5 | The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us . |
| 6 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 7 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 8 | Mr Kaufman called in his support the view of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German foreign minister , who he said had told the review group in Bonn that ‘ agreements are better than unilateral moves because they can be verified and can not be reversed ’ . |
| 9 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 10 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 11 | Mr Robson had told his wife he had been scratched by a woman during a pub fight . |
| 12 | Prior to the match , Evert had told the Australian captain , Wendy Turnbull , to tell her No. 1 player , Anne Minter , ‘ that if she can beat me as she did in Toronto ( in August ) , then she can beat Manuela Maleeva ’ . |
| 13 | If this goes on any longer , he was going too , the doctor had told him . |
| 14 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 15 | Her doctor had told the jury she was not on the pill and knew of no tests . |
| 16 | The penalty was imposed primarily as a result of evidence provided by the victim and in spite of the tenor of the earlier summing-up by the judge who had told the jury that it was dangerous to convict on the evidence of an alleged victim alone . |
| 17 | The court heard Mr Ozberk had told immigration officials that in April he had been arrested by Turkish police seeking information about his brother , a member of an outlawed Kurdish independence organisation . |
| 18 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 19 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 20 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 21 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 22 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 23 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 24 | He had told her that he had started sleeping with someone else , a ‘ real woman ’ , he had said rashly . |
| 25 | His doctor had told him to ease up . |
| 26 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 27 | China , Rachel had told Maggie , was the place for dragons , where it was hot , and where in the villages great paper ones were paraded with veneration . |
| 28 | In spite of their wish to make the visit a surprise , Rose had told Moran they were arriving . |
| 29 | Her son had told her to leave his house . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |