Example sentences of "tell him [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 2 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 3 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 4 | I told him to take a miss on the instruction part . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 6 | This was taken direct to Queen Yolande who had summoned Alexander and told him to take the King 's favourite horse , a white mare stabled at Kinghorn , down to the ferry . |
| 7 | COUNCIL chiefs wrote to Andrew Jones to say they were sorry his father had died … then told him to quit the family home . |
| 8 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 9 | You know when she told him to close the cupboard ? |
| 10 | Guppy later told him to close the account because of worries about possible criminal action . |
| 11 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 13 | Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's . |
| 14 | He did n't understand what Miss Thorne meant when she told him to keep a gesture . |
| 15 | Nigger pulled out a wad of notes large enough to choke a horse , gave Knocker a pound note , and told him to keep the change . |
| 16 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 17 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 18 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 19 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 20 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 21 | Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience . |
| 22 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 23 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 24 | , you should have told him to put an advert in . |
| 25 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 26 | Prince Rainbow had the power of the sky and the power of the hills and Frith had told him to order the world as he thought best . |
| 27 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 28 | Tell him to join the society which I 'm starting up after the programme . |
| 29 | And oh , how she 'd love to use that choice and tell him to take a hike , she thought longingly . |
| 30 | If he protests , tell him to appeal the matter to the Kha-Khan . ’ |