Example sentences of "to tell her about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 2 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 3 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |
| 4 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 5 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 6 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 7 | I did n't want to tell her about the light in the locked room , or about Mr Ross . |
| 8 | Christine Mills had called several times to say she wanted to see the chief inspector urgently because she had ‘ something very important ’ to tell her about the death of her father . |
| 9 | Then I had to tell her about the visit — about most of it — from Sergia and her cohorts . |
| 10 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |