Example sentences of "[verb] tell him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to tell him on Monday . |
| 2 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 3 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 4 | That was n't important , but it was easier to start with something unimportant and then , later on , she could begin to tell him about Oliver . |
| 5 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |
| 6 | But as he walked , he became more and more convinced that he would also have to tell him about Surere . |
| 7 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 8 | But I did tell him about Jordi . |
| 9 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 10 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 11 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 12 | Greeting Coleman like an old friend , although they had met only once before , Hurley said Sasser had told him about Condor Television and its plans for covering events in Lebanon , and how about joining him for lunch ? |
| 13 | Rubberneck , sometimes — Meg had told him about St Francis , his favourite saint — thought of them as birds . |
| 14 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 15 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 16 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 17 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 18 | ‘ You got ta understand about America ’ , an old black man had told him in Washington DC , ‘ it 's a fucking capitalist nightmare . ’ |
| 19 | Forty days of rain , as God had told him in advance . |
| 20 | I 've told him for years , but I did n't want to hurt him because I loved him . |
| 21 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 22 | Did n't he realize how much she wanted to tell him about Aunt Emily 's magical generosity and her own longing to have done more for her while she lived — ? |
| 23 | It was particularly annoying because she wanted to tell him about Henry 's suggestion . |