Example sentences of "told [pers pn] the news " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 2 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 3 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |
| 4 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 5 | We never run out of conversation , although it knocked the wind out of his sails when I told him the news and he suggested I contact a faith-healer friend of his . |
| 6 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 7 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 8 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 11 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |