Example sentences of "he tell [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 2 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 4 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 5 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 6 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 7 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 8 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 9 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 10 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 11 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 12 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 13 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |