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Example sentences for "told you"

  • Don't you remember how I told you, when I came and sat on your bed the night of the storm, that there was nothing in the world I wouldn't do for you?

  • But what I judge most likely is that she's on the spot from which, the other day, we saw together what I told you.

  • As I've told you, however, it doesn't matter.

  • As I've told you, I belong to a cause--to a career.

  • You can make of me what you please, as I told you yesterday.

  • I told you I was afraid Dick Kelly would make the one move that could destroy us.

  • As I've told you, all Dick Kelly's interest in this fall's local election is that judgeship.

  • I told you he isn't fit to talk about," said Martha.

  • I told you what I'd do if you molested her, and, by the Lord!

  • I told you that I picked the book off the floor.

  • Since Harker's bust was one in three, the chances were exactly as I told you--two to one against the pearl being inside it.

  • I told you so in the beginning," I said, irritably.

  • I told you we was stoppin' with friends," said Raffles, who was not angry, though thwarted and crushed.

  • Well, as I told you before, and as you have since probably discovered for yourself, you won't find it exactly a sinecure.

  • The Count I told you about is pretty high up in it, by the way he spoke, but there will be grades and grades between him and the organ-grinders.

  • This is Donald Whiting, the Senior I told you about, Mr. Morrison.

  • I told you to take this suite, and this is the first time that I have ever mentioned to you what you spent on it.

  • I believe what I told you a minute ago: I think she has gone for good.

  • I told you Mother j believed in dressing her as the majority of other girls were dressed, but I didn't say she had been reared for society.

  • I told you that I could only give fifteen francs," interrupted Madame Ferailleur--"take it or leave it.

  • He's married, as I told you before, and I'll find his wife for you in a few days.

  • And if I told you that I am--almost ruined, what would you reply?

  • I've told you, sir, that I was guilty of an infamous deed once upon a time.

  • I told you so when you spoke of it to me a dozen years afterward.

  • We slipped across the noiseless water in the bluey light which I told you of; then we were in the dark again and we touched shore.

  • I told you not to let him get in any deeper with you.

  • She even answered him patiently when he asked her, "What did you say to Tom when he told you it was the other one?

  • And the Lord said to Adam, "I told you that at the end of the five and a half days, I will send my Word and save you.

  • If only you had not transgressed My commandment and had kept My law, and had not eaten of the fruit of the tree which I told you not to come near!

  • When Adam heard these words he cried and mourned, and said to Eve, "Hear what he said; that he won't fulfil any of what he told you in the garden.

  • But, O Adam, he will not fulfil even one of the things he told you.

  • And I told you not to eat of the fruit thereof, nor to taste of it, nor yet to sit under it, nor to yield to it.

  • Why, the gypsy trail, formed as I told you before.

  • I want neither sherry nor yourself; didn't you hear what I told you?

  • As I told you before, Belle," said I, "the chief difficulty which I find in teaching you Armenian proceeds from your persisting in applying to yourself and me every example I give.

  • She was not married when I told you so, brother; that is, not to Sylvester; nor was I aware that she was going to marry him.

  • I see the whole thing as he does, because of all I've told you.

  • As I told you, I couldn't make a cent if I didn't drink.

  • Said he: "As I told you before, I don't want to know anything.

  • And as I told you before, when I can't pay I'll go right away.

  • I told you I had reached the beach naked.

  • You couldn't understand if I told you," replied she.

  • Haven't I told you I don't love you, and don't want anything to do with you?

  • Oh, he told you what he said," cried she.

  • I told you you'd not find her interesting.

  • But, as I told you, we can let you off--anything within reason.

  • My Mother's brother said to them, "I told you he would never take such things.

  • His lady did my washing, as I've told you.

  • That plague which I told you I had handled outside Wallingford in Oxfordshire was of a watery nature, conformable to the brookish riverine country it bred in, and curable, as I have said, by drenching in water.

  • I told you I gave 'em time to change their minds.

  • I told you I thought worse than nothing of your Lady Vandeleur; and if you had an eye in your head you might see what she is for yourself.

  • I told you that I wouldn't go with you until you had brought your father to me, and he had wished us happiness.

  • I told you that I wanted to ask you a few questions.

  • You see, Burke, you couldn't in a trial even repeat what he told you.

  • Young woman," Burke said briskly, "it's just like I told you.


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


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