Example sentences of "he tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 2 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 3 | He told you ? |
| 4 | He told Caterer that the launch of the leaflets had been overshadowed by the events in the USSR . |
| 5 | Voices were raised outside as he progressed through the crowd , but he told everyone to ‘ move on ’ and ‘ go home ’ , instructions which , of course , were ignored . |
| 6 | ‘ Terrible , ’ he told them — and to be fair it was entirely without relish that he spoke . |
| 7 | She apparently threatened to leave him unless he told her who the person was . |
| 8 | Anyway , he told her . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , he told her . |
| 10 | What exactly he told her I do n't know , but that 's all in the past now . ’ |
| 11 | He told his audience that ‘ C.I.D . |
| 12 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 13 | He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) : |
| 14 | After a few scotches , he told her he 'd buy a dishwasher , throwing in a string of fatuous clichés about her delicate hands , sparkling and making her laugh . |
| 15 | But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable . |
| 16 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , Lorca influenced Leonard 's world-view too ; his ‘ transcendental and far-reaching ’ ideas about life touched him : ‘ Lorca changed my way of being and thinking radically , ’ he told a Spanish journalist . |
| 18 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 19 | When he finished he told her about himself . |
| 20 | ‘ White Lambrusco , ’ he told her . |
| 21 | He was more concerned to get her last report on Michael Morrissey who , now he told her , had a grown brother in the IRA and so , as the Head put it , the family had been made unwelcome in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 23 | Or maybe even further than that : to those warm sunny days when she sat watching her Daddy and asking him questions and he told her like he always did - ‘ Go and play , there 's a good girl . ’ |
| 24 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 25 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 26 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 27 | ‘ The very thought would be enough to kill Turgenev , ’ so he told a friend , and posterity salutes a marvel of concentrated effort . |
| 28 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 29 | He told delegates : ‘ After all the Tories have taken , the end result is a country which can not pay its way , which lives on tick and with the highest interest rates of the advanced world . |
| 30 | Labour should ‘ face the challenge ’ — the slogan of the policy review — by carrying out a full-scale programme to implement nuclear disarmament , he told the conference . |