Example sentences of "telling him of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to Dick , not mentioning her miscarriage , telling him of her plans . |
| 2 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 3 | She wondered whether she could gain his respect by telling him of her d'Urberville blood . |
| 4 | At home that night she began a letter to Clare , telling him of her great love for him . |
| 5 | After dinner she wrote a brisk , chatty letter to Chambers , telling him of her notion and in every way ( she hoped ) putting him at his ease . |
| 6 | Though had Leith any anxieties about telling him of her feelings , then she discovered that they were unnecessary anyway , for , glancing at Naylor again , she saw that a cold mask seemed to have slipped over his features . |
| 7 | She also wondered if she had put him off by telling him of her previous engagement and how wary of love it had left her . |
| 8 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 9 | The letter telling him of his disgrace was delivered to him in prison . |
| 10 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |