Example sentences of "he tell [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 2 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 3 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |
| 4 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 5 | He told her the one about the grand lady and the taxi driver who was reluctant to take her and her poodle home in his cab in case the dog wet the seat . |
| 6 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 7 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 8 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 9 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 10 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 11 | He told her the others and she tried to memorize them , the positions and the titles . |
| 12 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 13 | He told them a story about his own children , when they were very young . |
| 14 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 15 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 16 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 17 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 18 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 19 | I 'm pretty sure he told me a boy , I think . |
| 20 | I hate him now , because he told me a lie , that you would never return , and you have returned ! |
| 21 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 22 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 23 | He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field . |
| 24 | ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’ |
| 25 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 26 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 27 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 28 | He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one . |
| 29 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 30 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |