Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] the news " in BNC.

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1 I had to tell him the news myself
2 Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks .
3 Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news .
4 The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news .
5 Aunt Tossie considered if this was the right evening to tell her the news .
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