Example sentences of "he did tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he did tell me about the Women 's Therapy Centre . |
| 2 | However , he did tell Gedge he was having thoughts of leaving , but did not say why . |
| 3 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |
| 4 | Mr Gutteridge said : ‘ Once he did tell me , after we did a report , it would land on the PM 's desk . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He did tell me he 'd been to the house , ’ I said . |
| 6 | Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work . |
| 7 | ‘ He did tell me that . ’ |
| 8 | Then he did tell her , but he told her lies . |
| 9 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 10 | he did tell me though about doing the old pencil in , in here i n't it ? |
| 11 | Well , I , he did tell me but I could n't remember , sh |
| 12 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 13 | But he did tell you to move ? |
| 14 | He did tell me they were going . |
| 15 | The I think the only changes he did tell us was in sixteen eighty when they put sash windows on the front . |
| 16 | He did tell me some other things about himself . |