Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 2 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 3 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 4 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 5 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 6 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |