Example sentences of "told he the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 2 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 3 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 4 | Leo had chuckled when Barbara told him the story of Hubert 's conversion . |
| 5 | Preston was astonished at himself for letting it happen , but when he 'd first suggested wearing a condom Emily had said , ‘ You do n't have to , ’ and told him the story about her abortion , and he 'd felt too sorry for her , and too embarrassed , to insist on doing so for health reasons . |
| 6 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 7 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 8 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 9 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 10 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 12 | I think Joe told him the name of his attackers , and it 's obviously someone … someone … " |
| 13 | Did n't know you , anything about you , and the only thing I can think of to explain it is that Maura , Donal 's sister , told him the name of the family I was looking for . |
| 14 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 15 | Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 . |
| 16 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 17 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 18 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 19 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 20 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 21 | I told him the credit authority number . |
| 22 | I told him the price when he ordered them |
| 23 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 24 | I told him the love and character evident in that sofa was worth at least £50 . |
| 25 | He listened while Gabriel told him the day 's events . |
| 26 | Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter . |
| 27 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 28 | Ellie told him the truth . |
| 29 | When Topaz gave Lovat his answer she also told him the truth about her interlude with Andrew . |
| 30 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |