Example sentences of "he tell [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 2 | It would only confuse him to tell him the truth . |
| 3 | He told her the others and she tried to memorize them , the positions and the titles . |
| 4 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 5 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 6 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 7 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 8 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 9 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 10 | He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one . |
| 11 | He told me the story . |
| 12 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 13 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 14 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 15 | He told me the daughter was a bad lot though . |
| 16 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 17 | A full member of the MRS , he told me the polls understated the influence of undecided voters and he now believes he was proved right . |
| 18 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 19 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 20 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 21 | I could see that he was rather cross with me , and soon he told me the reason . |
| 22 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |
| 23 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |
| 24 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 25 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 26 | But why had n't he told her the truth ? |
| 27 | Why did n't he tell me the truth ? |
| 28 | ‘ Did he tell you the results of those enquiries ? ’ |
| 29 | Can he tell us the position on the police authority 's request for 400 more officers ? |
| 30 | And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story . |