Example sentences of "told him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 2 | Ephron has told him the land is worth four hundred shekels . |
| 3 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 4 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 5 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 6 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 7 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 8 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 9 | Kenneth had told him the story , years ago , about when Fergus put Lachy Watt 's eye out ; he 'd stuck a fossil bone in it , or something . |
| 10 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 11 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 12 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 13 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 14 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |
| 15 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 16 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 17 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 18 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ I think she ought … to have told him the truth — or else refused him … |
| 20 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 21 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 22 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |