Example sentences of "he [verb] to tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's typical of him to forget to tell me he 's entertaining . |
| 2 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 3 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 5 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |
| 6 | He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember he tried to tell us clouds came from the Steam Packet Hotel , in the town . |
| 8 | He phoned to tell me that he had it shortly after you and Nicky had left . |
| 9 | ‘ He phoned to tell me they found Timmy . ’ |
| 10 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 11 | She said slowly , ‘ I ca n't help wondering what he has to tell me . |
| 12 | We acknowledge who we are in his sight , and we open ourselves to receive what he has to tell us . |
| 13 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 14 | You do n't have to tell his why doing it , but he has to tell you afterwards . |
| 15 | He wants to tell them that he may not be able to come home this summer . |
| 16 | There 's something he wants to tell me . ’ |
| 17 | He wants to tell you something . |
| 18 | ‘ Joey says it sounds O.K. He says to tell you , shamus , that he hopes you collect the reward . ’ |
| 19 | When he came to tell her , thinking she would be pleased ( though , as he knew she suspected , he was not exactly pleased himself ) she stared at him in disbelief and said over and over ‘ Not go ? not go ? ’ like a parrot . |
| 20 | He came to tell me I have a legacy . ’ |
| 21 | I think he came to tell me that we should go to Ireland and that we would be OK . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 23 | Is he guaranteeing to tell us where everyone of the cooks is going to come at the next Policy Meeting . |
| 24 | Nathan was awestruck with the audacity of it all , but when he turned to tell me how impressed he was I was asleep . |
| 25 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 26 | How much was he going to tell her ? |
| 27 | I do n't remember his words now and it would be ethically wrong for me to make them up , but he began to tell me that there was something in my lung . |
| 28 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 29 | And he began to tell me yet again ( I liked to hear , though — I loved theatre tales ) of his early days , his few triumphs . |
| 30 | Méli disliked silence , and in a moment he began to tell me what he knew about Conchis . |