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Example sentences for "then told"

  • I then told him I was a guide in government employ.

  • He then told me that most of the Indians liked me and thought I was a friend, but that "Yank" and his crowd thought I was a spy and wanted to kill me; but that if I could win him I would be all right.

  • I then told him to say to them: "Go back to your camp; talk with your head chief and your people, and explain these things.

  • I then told him to settle with the chief himself, and give me the account, which amounted to three barsati, two sahari, and three yards merikani; but the donkeys were never alluded to.

  • I then told them, finally that their proposals were now beyond my power, for I had a duty to perform as well as themselves, and in a day or two I should be off.

  • I then told her, I would do any thing rather than be exposed; on which she bid me assume as chearful a countenance as I could, and depend on her bringing me some intelligence of Wildly before I slept.

  • I then told her I had got a whim in my head for a new tippet, and that I wanted her fancy in the choice of the colours.

  • I then told him I was not able to run away.

  • He then told me of the circumstance of the Indians killing one of their own men that day they caught me.

  • He then told me I must go; that they were his children and that they were very good Indians; they would not hurt me.

  • He then told me that the duty had been committed to De Morse's men, and that about three hundred of them had crossed Harpeth river, and encamped on Dog creek.

  • He then told me he had been raised a slave, and he had run off from his master, who lived in Jack county, Texas; and that he had lived in those mountains several years.

  • He then told me he had a proposal to make to me, which I should promise him I would not take ill if I should not grant it.

  • He then told me how much the offer I had made of trusting him with my effects, and leaving them to him, had engaged him.

  • He then told me I had a piece of ceremony to go through, after which he hoped to have me to himself.

  • I then told them, as I purposed to act nothing without their concurrence, I desired the colambs would remain in the city till I set out, that they might be readily called together.

  • I then told him, as he must be strained with so hard a flight, it would be better if he lay down, and called on me in the morning.

  • We then told my elder cousin of the alarming intelligence we had received; but he could afford no hope: broken-hearted himself, he could only fancy that some dreadful fate had overtaken my young sister.

  • He then told me that he had the timbers all framed and ready to put together and intended to hang all the murderers promptly at 2 o'clock.

  • I then told him to go to Mr. Powers, the Justice of the Peace.

  • He then told me that at this place he saw his first white man.

  • I then told her (Maria), do not lose your soul for money.

  • I then told him, that while a nun, in the convent of Montreal, I had witnessed the murder of a nun, called Saint Francis, and of at least one of the infants which I have spoken of in this book.

  • He then told me to put my hand under the table, and my three cards were placed in it.

  • He then told us he was living near Rochester when we first came before the public, and always felt the deepest sympathy for us.

  • He then told me it was a pity to take such a pretty young fellow before the mast; but if I understood accounts tolerably, and could write a good hand, he would make me his steward, and make it worth my while.

  • I then told him of our trip the day before.

  • He then told me that he and General Wheeler both attended the Military School at West Point at the same time, and that he knew him well, and that I described him exactly.

  • He then told me that I had better report the movement to General Grant.

  • He then told me that if General Grant wanted I should have one, he would get one like it for me.

  • I then told him, that I had brought a small sum of money with me, which I supposed would be sufficient to pay the charges of that occasion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then 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:
    born here; getting better; then applied; then back; then bottle; then brought; then curs; then drew; then evaporated; then goes; then looked; then looking; then more; then passed; then proceeded; then ready for use; then remove; then rode; then season; then strain; then the priest shall; then thought; then took; then very; thence south; upper leaves