Example sentences of "[pers pn] have told " in BNC.
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1 | If it 's a pest , cull it properly , get the authorities in , we 've got more and more specialists sitting in those chambers telling us what to do on farming issues , on B S E , we 've got coming , we 've got a a team of experts , well not one of them has told said gone down in favour of hunting . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
4 | I told her what I 'd told Erica at Tremayne 's dinner , and said it might not lead to anything helpful . |
5 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
6 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
7 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
8 | Then she came back on the line and faithfully repeated everything I 'd told her , and everything I 'd asked . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
12 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
13 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
14 | Stupid woman — I 'd told her to put you through if you called . ’ |
15 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
16 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
17 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
18 | Because I 'd told her it was funny this doctor never even touched her before he sent her in there . |
19 | I 'd told , and Toby had n't minded , and soon we 'd be alone together . |
20 | ‘ I thought I 'd told you . ’ |
21 | ‘ I 'll stay over , give you both dinner , ’ I 'd told David . |
22 | I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit . |
23 | " 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 ? " |
24 | " 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 ? " |
25 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
26 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
27 | Yes I did know she was going to be in Caracas and No I did n't tell you and Yes that was wrong but would it have been better if I 'd told you ? |
28 | Almost automatically I 'd told Posi to shift the Netlines and double back . |
29 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
30 | I did n't want you to find the letter before I 'd told you about it . ’ |