Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 2 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 3 | Alec Smith has told me of his studies on the bottom sediment of Lake Windermere in north-west England . |
| 4 | He had already told me about his girl-friend , an American student of modern dance in West Berlin . |
| 5 | ‘ Has he told you about his divorce ? ’ |
| 6 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 7 | Nobody seems to have told him about his humiliation . |
| 8 | I 'd told him in his office it would do no good , but he insisted . |
| 9 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 10 | What had prompted the feeling had been the story he 'd told her about his grandfather and his link with G.W. Fashions . |