Example sentences of "told he that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It told him that Dorian Gray was going to marry Sybil Vane .
2 I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property .
3 At this point I went to look for my master , and told him that Catherine and Heathcliff were quarrelling in the kitchen .
4 There was a shocked hush , and then the Keraing , with a sly smile , told him that Ladjang would be sailing with us .
5 Writing to Lord Milton , Mary Campbell told him that Ure was ‘ the choice of two heritors & your humll. servt. and the whole session with the whole congregation except three heritors ’ .
6 His senses told him that Cora-Beth was as eager as he for closer intimacies , and she made no attempt to draw back when he unbuttoned her coat and felt for the soft warmth of her breasts .
7 The servant answered and told him that Doctor Jekyll was not at home .
8 ‘ Mr Duke had lived with Miss Jones , ’ he told Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , sitting with two other judges , ‘ and she told him that Mrs Sutcliffe had negotiated a contract with The Mail on Sunday .
9 What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ?
10 The Captain was aware that at this stage she was still sufficiently frightened by what had happened to her to be hiding something , but experience told him that U would be useless to try and force her .
11 Everything he had seen , read and heard told him that Britain was in grave danger from the excesses of industrialization , and nothing very significant was being done to halt the process .
12 Lord Birkenhead , who lunched with Lord Derby ( the Secretary of State for War in Baldwin 's Cabinet ) on 10 December , told him that Baldwin would resign , that the King would then send for Lord Balfour , the only living Conservative ex-Prime Minister , to seek advice .
13 She told him that Cinderella 's coach had broken down — a puncture .
14 Berisha met with President George Bush and told him that Albania fully supported economic sanctions against Serbia , in spite of their high cost to Albania .
15 Pure copper 's instinct told him that Burrows was not involved ; the alternative , however , was frightful .
16 Burghley told him that Elizabeth still considered him ‘ both an honest man and a good subject ’ but said that he should not raise such matters in the House .
17 Jackson told him that General MacArthur had spoken to Jackson before he left Tokyo and had urged him to do all he could to assist Hodge and to prevent any dangerous developments .
18 The European Communities ( EC ) approved emergency payments to Bulgaria on Nov. 11 [ see p. 38587 ] , and on Nov. 13 President Zhelev led a Bulgarian delegation to Brussels , where EC Commission President Jacques Delors told him that talks on an association agreement between Bulgaria and the EC would begin by Dec. 15 .
19 But something deep inside told him that Bernice had been right .
20 One horrified look told him that Daisy had already sunk to her pasterns .
21 Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people .
22 Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people .
23 When I told him that Howard Moss — whom I never met but whose poetry I greatly admired — had already published several of my poems , Dana appeared surprised and a little put out .
24 Writing to the bishop of Bruges in January 1325 , Edward Il told him that Charles IV had attacked Aquitaine , irrespective of the ‘ state or condition of kinship and affinity ’ ( statum aut condicionem consanguinitatis vel affinitatis ) between them .
25 No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight .
26 She told him that Mr Roxborough was n't in the office and could his secretary help ?
27 He received an internal phone call from Muldoon , who told him that McGillicuddy wanted him to go on to Dublin immediately .
28 queried whether we really needed to be in it and I told him that sales wanted it and the reasons why we wanted to be in erm even the fact that it was going to k erm give us more accounting work erm whatsisname what bank is it ?
29 Channell told him that supporters who gave $300,000 or more could meet Reagan for 15 minutes , and that their visits were not logged on : ‘ the implication being that this was so secret that the President wanted to keep it so not everybody at the White House knew what was going on . ’
30 ‘ He was n't , but I told him that Sean 'n' Michael was havin' hard times and had to draw in the reins a bit .
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