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

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1 She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week .
2 Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all .
3 If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back .
4 George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well .
5 Leila settled to tell him the story of Nathan 's condition and all that had happened at the farm , with certain omissions .
6 She had told him a lie about Auntie Lou going for a walk up the mountain and Auntie Lou did n't know what she 'd said .
7 She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand .
8 He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it .
9 Kenneth had told him the story , years ago , about when Fergus put Lachy Watt 's eye out ; he 'd stuck a fossil bone in it , or something .
10 Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning .
11 He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street .
12 ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth .
13 She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder .
14 The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life .
15 And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so .
16 Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again .
17 I had to tell him the news myself
18 She wanted to tell him the rest of it ; tell him what Mrs Gotobed had told her to tell Mr Evans and ask Albert what he thought she had meant , but she could n't think how to put it without making herself sound fearfully stupid .
19 Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up .
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