Example sentences of "told he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |
| 2 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 3 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 4 | If Leslie had been going too fast the others would have told him to slow down . |
| 5 | When Adam was about eight his father had told him masturbating gave you scurvy . |
| 6 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 7 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 8 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it . |
| 10 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 11 | I should have told him to go to hell . |
| 12 | I 've told him to go and sit quietly . |
| 13 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
| 14 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 15 | She 'd even told him to take La Tour Monchauzet and Antoinette with it , she recalled , wincing . |
| 16 | ‘ We have told him to take his time before deciding who to plump for , ’ he added . |
| 17 | He 's had about three pints but that 's what they 've told him to take . |
| 18 | The psychiatrist has told him to take three pints of lager . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've told him to grit his teeth and hang on , ’ said Linda . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've told him to stop doing all these dreary panel shows , ’ Julian Clary tells me . |
| 21 | A recent medical board had told him to stop smoking , to cut down on beer , and to eat more healthily ( the current euphemism for going on a diet ) , or else … |
| 22 | Mum had said red was an evil colour but the vicar had told him to put them out so it could n't be a sin . |
| 23 | , you should have told him to put an advert in . |
| 24 | His doctor had told him to ease up . |
| 25 | ‘ He thought the world of the shop , I could n't have told him to retire because it meant everything to him . |
| 26 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 27 | Prince Rainbow had the power of the sky and the power of the hills and Frith had told him to order the world as he thought best . |
| 28 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 29 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 30 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |