Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ .
2 He asked the parents to tell him about the children , their tastes , their likes and dislikes .
3 The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight .
4 The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning .
5 In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus .
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