Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of telling him that a note from their landlady , contemplating the disappearance of her husband forever , had gone , vanished , and just who , did he think , was likely to have taken it ? |
| 2 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 3 | Galbraith recalls that he astonished Premier Nehru in the 1950s by telling him that the Punjab was a better place to live and offered a higher general level of income than rural West Virginia , Georgia and Mississippi . |
| 4 | Can I put the Home Secretary back on the right road by telling him that the reason why morale in the Northumbria police force is low and why chief constables generally despair is not because the right hon. Gentleman suddenly makes a generous offer of help in a crisis , but because all chief constables , including the new chief constable of Northumbria , want consistency of funding so that they can be sure that they will get the officers and resources they require over a number of years ? |
| 5 | May I encourage him by telling him that the Chief Constable 's view is that four out of every five planned terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland are thwarted before they take place ? |