Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fagan told them his name was Michael Hess , son of the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess who was in Spandau prison in Germany . |
| 2 | At his first diocesan conference he told them his idea of a bishop 's job . |
| 3 | He told me his plan was to murder his hated guest that night , with the weapon he had shown me . |
| 4 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 5 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 6 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 7 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 8 | He told me his name was Abel Magwitch , and after breakfast he lit his pipe and held out his hands for mine again . |
| 9 | ‘ The man told me his name , ’ said the driver . |
| 10 | She told me his name , I do n't know . |
| 11 | So he told me his name , I think it 's something like Mr . |
| 12 | The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias . |
| 13 | Well he come into garage the other day and told me his wife had kicked him out ! |
| 14 | He told me his wife had kicked him out ! |
| 15 | Watched by an Italianate studio owner , Tony Verrechia , he told me his story . |
| 16 | We relaxed into another large bottle of Cusqueño beer as Barry told me his story . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ Just before Gary was killed , he told me his girlfriend was pregnant . |
| 18 | When I first met Richard , he told me his grandfather had been ‘ a parson ’ . |
| 19 | Is that what he told you his name was ? ’ |
| 20 | I told you his attraction to you is obvious . ’ |
| 21 | The jury heard a tape-recording of an interview between police officers and Hammond , in which he sobbed repeatedly when the officers told him his daughter was dead . |
| 22 | She saw him blush , the way Mike might have done if someone told him his salary at the bank was inadequate . |
| 23 | His unerring instinct told him his company had stumbled across something special and he released ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ on his own PWL label . |
| 24 | Now an angry little girl told him his back was straight , and he believed her . |
| 25 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 26 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |
| 27 | The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach . |
| 28 | He was coaching his local swimming team when police told him his car was being broken into . |
| 29 | Tip calmed him down and told him his son , also named Tip , would caddie for him . |
| 30 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |