Example sentences of "[adv] tell him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 2 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 3 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 4 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 5 | just tell him the truth . |
| 6 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 7 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 8 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 9 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 10 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 11 | ‘ Why did n't you just tell him the truth ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand , his tutor would always tell him the truth , and he would never be allowed to hear stories or fairy-tales . |
| 14 | I could not possibly tell him the truth , as that would scare the daylights out of him . |
| 15 | When Topaz gave Lovat his answer she also told him the truth about her interlude with Andrew . |
| 16 | Peggy very nearly cried out to tell him the letter was hers , but thought she 'd better not . |
| 17 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 18 | She did n't tell him the rest about her father and Camille , or the thoughts that had tormented her that long night . |
| 19 | They did n't tell him the girl 's name or where she came from . |
| 20 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 21 | Residents then told him the sergeant had been seriously wounded , and they took custody of the suspect so the constable could help his colleague . |
| 22 | ‘ Then tell him the truth , ’ Sabine said with bravado . |
| 23 | Emmie saw , appalled , that he was about to tell him the truth . |
| 24 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |