Example sentences of "tell he [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drinking half her cup she put it down , twisted round to face him , her chin resting in her hand , and told him a strange story . |
| 2 | Ellwood asked a lot of questions ; Piper told him a great deal about how the universe was ordered by the laws of music . |
| 3 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 4 | He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Far from it ! ’ she said thickly , but her racing pulses told him a different story , and she knew her desire for him was growing stronger with each moment they spent together . |
| 7 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 9 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 10 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 11 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 12 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 13 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 14 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 15 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 16 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 17 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 18 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 19 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 20 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 21 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 22 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 23 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 24 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 25 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 26 | If someone had told him a nuclear bomb was targeted on County Limerick , he 'd he delighted that his heating bills would be reduced . |
| 27 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 28 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 29 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 30 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |