Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 3 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 4 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 5 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 6 | What do I tell him the next time he asks |
| 7 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 8 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 9 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 10 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 11 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 12 | No way could she tell him the real reason . |
| 13 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |