Example sentences of "[vb past] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2–10–1905 They discussed the report of the Synod Committee and were dissatisfied , the report being " a misrepresentation of the state of the congregation " and expressed their sympathy with Rev. Peter Stewart and assured him of their full confidence . |
| 2 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 3 | She told him of her unhappiness , but she knew that , because of his love of the house , it would be difficult to convince him to move . |
| 4 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 5 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 6 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 7 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 8 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 9 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 10 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 11 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 12 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 14 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 15 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 16 | Elizabeth 's face lit up , as she told him of Martha 's excitement over the clothes sent by Tamar . |
| 17 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 18 | Urquhart knew him ; and falling into talk Paul told him of his predicament . |
| 19 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 20 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 21 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 22 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 23 | Next day , Gardiner and Foxe , pressed by the King for their advice as to how to end his long and tedious suit , told him of their conversation with Cranmer . |
| 24 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 25 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 26 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 27 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 28 | In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters . |
| 29 | I also told him of my affection for you and that I could n't injure you by marrying you without love . |
| 30 | He tries to remember accurately Flaubert , which he was combing on the plane : ‘ Their indifferent glances told him of passion dulled by daily satisfaction . ’ |