Example sentences of "he tell [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face . |
| 2 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 3 | Erm he , he told him this morning on the phone , he 's looked into it , he 's the director and he apologizes . |
| 4 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 5 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 6 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 7 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 8 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 9 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 10 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 11 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 12 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 13 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 14 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 15 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 16 | He told me this morning . ’ |
| 17 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |
| 18 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 19 | He told me this week that he was convinced by West 's ‘ karate theory ’ at the time . |
| 20 | He told me this week : |
| 21 | He told me this week : ‘ It 's the first time City of Derry have won a green pennant since the club was founded in 1912 . ’ |
| 22 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 23 | Well he told me last year he 'd applied . |
| 24 | Do you know what he told me last night ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's an adventure , ’ he told me last week . |
| 26 | He told me last week there had been more than 100 applicants for the Section Eight grants which encourage it . |
| 27 | He wondered if — ‘ Shut up ! ’ he told his hyperactive brain . |
| 28 | And he told his cheering audience : ‘ Of course it wo n't work . |
| 29 | ‘ I can scarcely stir out of my house ’ , he told his political masters in Whitehall , ‘ on account of public creditors waiting to demand payment of what is due to them . ’ |
| 30 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |