Example sentences of "had tell [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 2 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 3 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 4 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 5 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 6 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 7 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 8 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 9 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 10 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 11 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 12 | Her encounters with Timothy had continued and it was he who had told her of the birth of Andrew 's son a year after his marriage . |
| 13 | ‘ You can get out now if you want to , ’ he said , after he had told her about the phone call to Coy . |
| 14 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |
| 15 | Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries . |
| 16 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 17 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 18 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 19 | Then I had to tell her about the visit — about most of it — from Sergia and her cohorts . |
| 20 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 21 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 22 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 23 | I had to tell you about the risk , but I 've done this operation on bitches who were older than Sandy , and they were all successful . ’ |