Example sentences of "[pers pn] told he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 2 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 3 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 4 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 5 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 7 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 8 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 9 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 10 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 11 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 12 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 14 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 15 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 16 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 17 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 18 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 19 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 20 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 21 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
| 22 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 23 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
| 24 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 25 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 26 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 27 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 28 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 29 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 30 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |