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Example sentences for "had told"

  • He only wished that I had told him of this complication in the beginning; as I had not, he agreed with me that the only course was a candid and complete renunciation.

  • He had told me his secret, thrown himself on my mercy, and put his liberty if not his life in my hands, but all for your sake, Harry, to right you in my eyes at his own expense.

  • If he had told me now that he had broken into the Bank of England, or the Tower, I should not have disbelieved him for a moment.

  • He had told her in all sincerity his history, the miseries of his home, M.

  • When I had told him my situation, he invited me to remain with him until I could find something better.

  • Jack was to have had charge of the battery--he had told her so.

  • I resorted to these somewhat rigorous measures because he had told me that no Italian whom he knew of had the power of spirit to remove one ring of iron from its place in his house.

  • He had told her in a few hurried words, and brought her as fast as the horses could go.

  • I was greatly pleased with Towneley, and thought it due to him to tell him what I had told no one else.

  • He had told me this during our interview, and I had encouraged him to the utmost of my power.

  • Instantly I remembered the story that Miss Holmes had told me at dinner and looked at her covertly, to see that she had turned quite pale and was trembling a little.

  • Then the snake vanished, seeming to wriggle down the left bottom bed-post, and I woke up in a cold sweat, my lord, and did what it had told me.

  • But as I said the words I remembered HarĂ»t had told us that Jana had been met with on the Holy Mount "in the spirit or in the flesh.

  • He had told me many useful things--and besides he was the brother of that wealthy merchant.

  • Evidently he had forgotten he had told me this important fact before.

  • You and I made a mistake, but it does not follow that Tom would have kept out of this scrape, if we had told my father our notion.

  • And he could not be happy till he had told you.

  • Well-nigh a day and a night had passed since Lady Wyatt had told me that which made for my heart a night-time indeed.

  • As if he had told me, I knew that he had thrown his scruples to the winds, and that he cared not what foul play he used to sweep me from his path.

  • When I had told him my name and tidings, he did so, with shaking knees and starting eyes.

  • At last my own wharf rose before me through the gathering dusk, and beyond it shone out a light; for I had told Diccon to set my house in order, and to provide fire and torches, that my wife might see I wished to do her honor.

  • But Musselboro had gone, and Dalrymple could not learn from the head woman-servant whom he saw, whether before going he had told to any one in the house the tale of the catastrophe which had happened in the City.

  • He had told her to listen, and she was resolved that she would listen,--unless he would say something which might make a word from her necessary at the moment.

  • But he had told himself so often that anything was better than a pecuniary obligation, that he was determined to speak his mind to Mrs Thorne, and to beg her to allow him to have his way.

  • Roundhand could not refuse such an invitation as that, though he had told us how Mrs. R.

  • I knew that he suspected Grafton: he had told me as much that night at the Coffee House.

  • For I had told him, casually as possible, that I had friends in Arlington Street, where I remembered the Manners were established.

  • He had told me that he had a brother William in Virginia, who was a hot Patriot.

  • Cambrai knew that I had told it to you, he would never pardon me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fairy story; had always; had bought; had brought; had committed; had determined; had done; had ever; had got; had grown; had hoped; had meant; had none; had often; had once; had passed; had resolved; had returned; had seemed; had seen; had sent; had spent; had such; had you; just now; might probably