Example sentences of "told he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 2 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 3 | She told him sorry , |
| 4 | He asked me if I was English , and 1 told him Irish . |
| 5 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh — you told him that ! ’ chorused Ethel and Mary . |
| 7 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 8 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 9 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 10 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 11 | Pastor told him that business was more important and he threw a tantrum . |
| 12 | A small Portuguese man with ringworm scars on his scalp was holding up a huge pair of trousers in despair ; I went over , took his trousers and shirt , told him that mine would fit him perfectly , and changed into his . |
| 13 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 14 | ‘ You told him that ? ’ |
| 15 | Tenison judged him ‘ full of an evil spirit ’ — understandably , since Proast told him that ‘ justice forsook Lambeth when Archbishop Sancroft removed from thence . ’ |
| 16 | Razak said afterwards that when Soviet officials told him that neutralisation was similar to collective security he replied that ‘ he appreciated this , but added that Malaysia preferred a neutrality plan which would be applicable to a smaller region such as Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 17 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe you should have walked over to Pike and told him that . |
| 19 | So it could n't have been you that told him that er and were associates . |
| 20 | Well I told him that , that I was getting very tired but he would 've just worried about me coming back down you know |
| 21 | they told him that . |
| 22 | told him that , because |
| 23 | Ye well I told him that , yeah ? |
| 24 | And there 's a photograph in th I never told him that |
| 25 | You told him that thing . |
| 26 | And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved . |
| 27 | I told him all that left me cold . |
| 28 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 29 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 30 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |