Example sentences of "[verb] to tell him about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another potential voter starts to tell him about the car that went through his garden wall . |
| 2 | That was n't important , but it was easier to start with something unimportant and then , later on , she could begin to tell him about Oliver . |
| 3 | Got to tell him about the party . |
| 4 | As Wayne returned , she quickly took her hand away ; she was n't going to tell him about this , not if she could help it . |
| 5 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 6 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 7 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 8 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 9 | But if you do n't have to contact the inland revenue , because you do n't need to prove the will because the estate is too small then you do n't have to tell him about the jointly owned property . |
| 10 | But as he walked , he became more and more convinced that he would also have to tell him about Surere . |
| 11 | Oh I 'll have to tell him about that . |
| 12 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 13 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 14 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 15 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 16 | She sighed , said , ‘ Do n't ask , ’ then continued to tell him about her husband , his experiments , his painful and sudden death , and the bomb aboard the craft . |
| 17 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 18 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |
| 19 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 20 | It was particularly annoying because she wanted to tell him about Henry 's suggestion . |
| 21 | She wanted to say that not only was that ridiculous but it was dangerous , she wanted to tell him about the frightening minutes in the maze of old Nice . |
| 22 | Did n't he realize how much she wanted to tell him about Aunt Emily 's magical generosity and her own longing to have done more for her while she lived — ? |