Example sentences of "told he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 2 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 3 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 4 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 5 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 6 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 7 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 9 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 10 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 11 | ‘ My only desire is to ensure that I remain dry-eyed , ’ she told him with a detachment she certainly did n't feel . |
| 12 | Better get out there and have a look just the same , Cesena told him with a hint of malice . |
| 13 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 16 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 17 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 18 | Andrew had not been pleased , not at all pleased , when she told him : told him with an almost religious reticence . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 24 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 25 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 26 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |