Example sentences of "had tell him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 2 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 3 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 4 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 5 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 6 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 7 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 8 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 9 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 10 | ‘ Feeling ill , poor darling , ’ Ian had told him with a hint of malice underlying his display of concern . |
| 11 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 12 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 13 | She had told him in no uncertain terms , on more than one occasion , that she wanted no more to do with him . |
| 14 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |