Example sentences of "[noun sg] told him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 2 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 3 | From his knowledge of ‘ Romances , & Relations of Giants & Magicians , & Genii ’ , his mind was soon ‘ habituated to the Vast ’ , and when , walking home to Ottery one winter evening , his father told him the names of the stars ‘ and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world — and that the other twinkling stars were Suns that had worlds rolling round them ’ , Coleridge listened with profound delight , ‘ but without the least mixture of wonder or incredulity ’ . |
| 4 | His instinct told him the Englishman 's disappearance was the best chance . |
| 5 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 6 | Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 . |
| 7 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 8 | Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter . |
| 9 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |