Example sentences of "[vb past] him the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 ’ . |
3 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
4 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
5 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
6 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
7 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
8 | Roirbak experienced a moment of panic , sure it was one of Penumbra 's staff , arrived too soon before he could work anything out , when Mellissa informed him the visitor was Leila Saatchi . |
9 | Kidded him the war was still on , long after it had finished . |