You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!
Twice, at intervals, Aunt Hester said, in frozen amazement: "You told a LIE?
You told me once that you had purchased the absence of the poor idiot and his mother, when (as I have discovered since, and then suspected) you had gone to tempt them, and had found them flown.
By the way, you told me your uncles had sent you their photographs.
She sent him away, you told me that, but are you sure she did it because she didn't care enough for him to marry him?
You answered an advertisement, you told me; but why?
You told me last night that you wanted the job of assistant keeper here at these lights.
I say it is odd, because, when Mrs. Bascom and I first met you, you told us this was your first summer here.
My vows once pronounced, I was to be in your hands a docile and obedient instrument; but I was to be employed, you told me, in a holy, great and beauteous work.
And neither of you told me anything of all this--why did you hide it from me?
As you told me to think only of the knapsack, I can only remember what concerns the knapsack.
I had retired to my chamber, taking with me this book, composed, you told me, by one of our fathers, and completed by a holy bishop.
You told me, then, father, that I was not yet ripe for certain functions; and it was then that I earnestly entreated you to be allowed to go on the American missions.
When I came down to tea, you told me you had been employing your mind for my benefit.
I have now laid my mind before you, as you told me, without reserve.
You told me you had been left out of the will altogether.
Before you ordered me to smoke," he said, "you told me to give you some advice.
You told me, or as good as told me, in the fog --when we talked of Lexington.
You told me yourself that they were not to be kept apart.
You told me the other day that I was afraid to come here.
You told me that more than a year ago, but I backed my skill against your prophecy.
He has been careless, disloyal--" "You told them so?
You told me it blew here, and I thought I knew what you meant, but nothing could withstand those rollers.
You told me, colonel, that General Brune was at Nantes; I knew it.
You told me to secure the support of those who regarded the friends of the Republic as Jacobins, and to rely, upon it that Sièyes was at their head.
You told me his advanced guard was only twelve miles away, at La Roche-Bernard; I knew that also.
Then, lowering his tone, he continued: "You told me just now to take care.
You told my aide-de-camp, Colonel Roland, that you had a communication to make me.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
