Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 2 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 3 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 6 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 7 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 8 | Leila settled to tell him the story of Nathan 's condition and all that had happened at the farm , with certain omissions . |
| 9 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 10 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 11 | ‘ My cousin did tell you the terms ? ’ |
| 12 | Yeah I did tell you the truth |
| 13 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 14 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 15 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 16 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 17 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 18 | Kenneth had told him the story , years ago , about when Fergus put Lachy Watt 's eye out ; he 'd stuck a fossil bone in it , or something . |
| 19 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 20 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 21 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 22 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 23 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 24 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 25 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 26 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 27 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 28 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 29 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 30 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |