Example sentences of "[pron] tell her [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’ |
| 2 | I told her a cut-down ( but not a Bowdlerized ) version of the story , omitting Toby . |
| 3 | I told her the story . |
| 4 | I told her the story . |
| 5 | I told her the story . |
| 6 | I told her the story about the wine , that 's all . |
| 7 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 8 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 9 | I told her the flat was in too disgusting a state for her to come and visit . |
| 10 | I told her the number straight off . |
| 11 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 12 | I told her the answer was the Sun . |
| 13 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 14 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 15 | How could I tell her the truth , after all she 'd been through ? ’ |
| 16 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 17 | And yet there was a part of her which longed to get to the bottom of this complex man , an instinct perhaps which told her the quest would be a worthwhile one . |
| 18 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 19 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |
| 20 | While she filled the tank of the lady 's car she told her the legend of the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 21 | Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else . |
| 22 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 23 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 24 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 25 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 26 | But why had n't he told her the truth ? |
| 27 | And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story . |
| 28 | Was he telling her the truth ? |