Example sentences of "'d tell [pers pn] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 4 | Pete was the one who 'd told him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ And Jean-Paul can be as stubborn as a mule , and you knew perfectly well that if you 'd told him what you felt , he would have dug in his heels and insisted . ’ |
| 7 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 8 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
| 9 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
| 10 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 11 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 12 | He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be . |
| 13 | His nan was furious when she found out he knew , and who 'd told him . |
| 14 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
| 15 | nobody 'd told him , and then when I got in touch with him erm he said no nobody had told him about it . |
| 16 | Harry said you 'd told him you loved him , but only a fortnight ago you sat here telling me you might well go to Jamaica with Dunbar . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you think me shameless for telling you I want you so badly , ’ she 'd told him shyly . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll do it like this , ’ they 'd told him . |
| 19 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 20 | He could think of some people who 'd say she 'd told him nothing he did n't already know and offer a few hundred francs . |
| 21 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 22 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 23 | There were hundreds of entries under Wells and a dozen or more A's ; none of them matched with Alison 's address as he remembered it ; and yet she 'd told him she was in the book . |
| 24 | Whatever she 'd told him , he would go ahead . |
| 25 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 26 | Then one day she saw he was crying when she 'd told him , for the fiftieth time , that he was ugly . |
| 27 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
| 28 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 29 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 30 | I 'd told him . |