Example sentences of "[noun] told him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 2 | Kelly told him about the call to the weighing room , her father 's letter , the death of Broom-Parker . |
| 3 | The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ . |
| 4 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 5 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 6 | Lucy Lane told him about the journal . |
| 7 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 8 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 9 | So , yeah it 's erm I think he 's living with Marion told him about the house , it 's one of the girls who was in English last year with her , Maureen , he 's living with her and another girl , and another boy . |
| 10 | Then Mary told him about the moor , and Dickon , and Ben Weatherstaff , and the robin , and Colin listened to it all with great interest . |
| 11 | Mr Justice Ognall told him after the verdict at the end of the three-week trial : ‘ You have been convicted on the most clear and compelling evidence of the murder of your wife . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Justice Ognall told him after the verdict at the end of the three-week trial : ‘ You have been convicted on the most clear and compelling evidence of the murder of your wife . |
| 13 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 14 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 15 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 16 | Lowell told him about the trap . |
| 17 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 18 | Finn told him about the murders of the tramp and the taxi driver . |
| 19 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 20 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 21 | Billy 's eyes shone as Yanto told him about the bike . |
| 22 | Tess told him about the baby . |
| 23 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 24 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 25 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |