Example sentences of "[adv] tell he [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 No see I must admit I wonder whether your Mum will find too much of a handful she 's already telling him off a lot you know ?
2 He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends .
3 Holmes then told him about the death of Sir Charles .
4 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 .
5 She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away .
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