Example sentences of "tell him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 2 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 4 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 5 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 7 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 8 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 9 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 10 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 11 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 12 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 13 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 14 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 15 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 16 | But she could not , so she simply told him in a flat tone , ‘ We 've recently started exporting to Europe and Japan . |
| 17 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 18 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 19 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she told him in a hoarse whisper , ‘ you must believe that … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 21 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 23 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 24 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 25 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 26 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 27 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 28 | Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ? |
| 29 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 30 | With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers . |