Example sentences of "he tell [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Giving Adam the chocolate bar , letting him tell her those rather dull facts about the sea defences , it had been so easy to forget what was going on — to feel he was just her little brother and everything was ordinary , normal .
2 I ca n't remember him telling me much at all , not .
3 I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’
4 He 'd get him to tell him next time he saw him .
5 Dr Jaffery 's nieces begged him to tell us one of his Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories and eventually he obliged .
6 ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face .
7 On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny .
8 She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter .
9 He told her that being firm , sticking to one 's guns in situations of this kind , always paid off .
10 He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to .
11 And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved .
12 Erm he , he told him this morning on the phone , he 's looked into it , he 's the director and he apologizes .
13 He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever .
14 He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’
15 Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea .
16 Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria .
17 He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him .
18 He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view .
19 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 .
20 He told them both never to leave the house again , and stormed out of the room , slamming the door hard enough to break a chunk of plaster out of the wall .
21 But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place .
22 He told me that himself .
23 He told me that . ’
24 Yes , he told me that , though I never met Sibelius personally .
25 Sure enough , he told me that 's what they planned for him .
26 He told me that with chicken pox I should n't be with the team , and he kept making remarks which made me feel embarrassed .
27 He told me that … there were 5 sins he could remember to-day ,
28 He told me that — ’
29 He told me that , when he heard in 1957 that his father was dead , his immediate reaction was ‘ Which ? ’ '
30 He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor .
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