Example sentences of "to tell her [prep] 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 . |
| 11 | Jeff had rung to tell her — and to tell her at the same time that Silvia had passed her exams with flying colours . |
| 12 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 13 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
| 14 | He felt a sudden desperate need to see Alice — to tell her of the momentous happenings of the day and ask her advice . |
| 15 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 16 | Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind . |
| 17 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 18 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |