Example sentences of "[pron] tell [pron] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 2 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 4 | The Baskerville lawyers are trying to contact him to tell him about his good fortune . |
| 5 | He told her about his old school . |
| 6 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 7 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 8 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 9 | He goes home , to be abused by his wife for not being at work , until he tells her of his heavenly gift . |
| 10 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |