Example sentences of "[vb past] tell him the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 8 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 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 longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 12 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 15 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 18 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 19 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 20 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |