Example sentences of "tell him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 3 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 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 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 9 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 10 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 11 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 13 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 14 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 15 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 18 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 21 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 22 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 23 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 24 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 25 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 26 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 27 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 28 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 29 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 30 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |