Example sentences of "telling him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 2 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 3 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 4 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 5 | On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying : |
| 6 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 7 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 8 | This began to make her feel less afraid about agreeing to marry him , and telling him the truth about herself . |
| 9 | Wickham had said as much when he spoke on the telephone to Ray Darby , the documents expert , telling him the file was on its way to him . |
| 10 | The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth . |
| 11 | He served him well by telling him the truth and by refusing to scheme against him . |
| 12 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 13 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 14 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 15 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean her telling him the way she did ? ’ |
| 17 | British Brigadier Roddy Cordy-Simpson , chief of staff at the UN military command in Bosnia , sent a letter to the head of the Bosnian Serb army , General Ratko Mladic , telling him the helicopter air bridge would start at 7am . |
| 18 | Lord Owen , co-chairman of the Bosnia peace conference , protested directly to the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic , telling him the shelling was ‘ outrageous ’ . |
| 19 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |