Example sentences of "told him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 2 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 3 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 4 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 5 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 6 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 7 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 8 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 9 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 10 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 11 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 12 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 13 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
| 14 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 15 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |