Example sentences of "[noun prp] have told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl Bainbridge has told how she finds plots for her novels by visiting the newspaper repository of the British Library in north London , looking out old daily papers for crimes and bizarre happenings . |
| 2 | A former prisoner from Cardiff has told the court that Gardiner said he 'd offered twenty thousand pounds to Chalky White not to give evidence against him . |
| 3 | ‘ Brother Jerome has told truth , the whole truth as he knows it , but it is not the whole . |
| 4 | I believe the Lady Amelia has told you everything we know . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Dean has told him he would do all his running and Dalian decided here was the guy he had waited for throughout his career , ’ said the Villa manager . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know if Alexandra has told you , but we 've been hoping very much to feature your next collection in our spring bumper issue , ’ Felicity said . |
| 7 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor has told Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears : ‘ You will not be forgotten . ’ |
| 8 | Germany has told Benin that it will not help with pesticide disposal until it refuses unnecessary donations . |
| 9 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , my brother Stair — I am sure that Matey has told you about Stair — invited me out tonight to the stag party of one of his friends ; I used to know him slightly . |
| 11 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 12 | The Kremlin has told four Soviet republics to drop controversial new laws on elections . |
| 13 | People began to feel ill yesterday afternoon and today the head Jean has told all two hundred and forty four pupils to stay at home . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Didier has told you , I am sure , that atropine 's been found in one of the dishes of entrée . ’ |
| 15 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 16 | ‘ Cadfael has told me , ’ said Hugh , ‘ how the sortes went , and of Brother Jerome 's confession . |
| 17 | What should Dana have told her ? |
| 18 | ‘ Would n't Mrs Thrigg have told the police about it ? ’ |
| 19 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 20 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 21 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |
| 22 | Suddenly , she was remembering what Jeff had told her . |
| 23 | She felt a sudden flash of doubt , remembering the things Jeff had told her , and thought again what had occurred to her over that fateful cup of coffee . |
| 24 | Ronni looked at Guido now from beneath her lashes , taking in the strong , mahogany-dark profile and remembering the story that Jeff had told her . |
| 25 | That was precisely the story Jeff had told her . |
| 26 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 27 | Jeff had told her Silvia was nineteen , only four years younger than herself . |
| 28 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 29 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 30 | Of all the most damned of coincidences ! she 'd thought , when Ari had told her what had happened in the canteen that first day at the Park . |