Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying :
2 Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date .
3 Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed .
4 Upset and infuriated by such cavalier treatment , made miserable and guilty by her failure to tell him the truth , she gritted her teeth and stayed still and mute , trying not to blink as the angry tears welled up .
5 Strangely then , at the thought of the heartless female he made her sound , Leith felt an almost overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth .
6 She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth .
7 His instinct told him the Englishman 's disappearance was the best chance .
8 I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish
9 He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them .
10 Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 .
11 The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was .
12 Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter .
13 The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ .
14 Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend .
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