Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] tell he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 2 | I 'd told him in his office it would do no good , but he insisted . |
| 3 | But I did tell him about Jordi . |
| 4 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 5 | Now I was talking to Dad I wanted to tell him about how Mum and I had found Granny and what wicked things Mum had done , but I knew Mum 's eyes were on me so I thought better of it . |
| 6 | She tried to tell him with her eyes as he advanced , hands balled into fists , but he did n't understand . |
| 7 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 8 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Even here , she seemed to tell him in her silence , there could be some small love for another sufferer , for a baby . |
| 12 | On impulse , she decided to tell him of her discoveries at the belvedere and the conclusions she had drawn from them . |
| 13 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 14 | Well I appreciate you deny it because er you said in answer to my friend that erm as I am required by rules to put it , er I do put to you that yes , you did have a shotgun , perhaps erm borrowed from one of the officers , yes you did put it to Mr head and you did tell him to er er shut up and wait for C I D. |
| 15 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 16 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 17 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 18 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 19 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 20 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 21 | She had told him in no uncertain terms , on more than one occasion , that she wanted no more to do with him . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | It was particularly annoying because she wanted to tell him about Henry 's suggestion . |
| 24 | She wanted to say that not only was that ridiculous but it was dangerous , she wanted to tell him about the frightening minutes in the maze of old Nice . |
| 25 | 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 — ? |
| 26 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 27 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 28 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |