Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 3 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 4 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finn told him about the murders of the tramp and the taxi driver . |
| 8 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 9 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |