Example sentences of "[pers pn] told him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 2 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 3 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 5 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 6 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 7 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 8 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 9 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 11 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 12 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 13 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 15 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 16 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 17 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 18 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 19 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 20 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 21 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 22 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 23 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 24 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 25 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 26 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 27 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 28 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 29 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |