Example sentences of "told him [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 3 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 4 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 8 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 9 | ‘ My only desire is to ensure that I remain dry-eyed , ’ she told him with a detachment she certainly did n't feel . |
| 10 | Better get out there and have a look just the same , Cesena told him with a hint of malice . |
| 11 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 22 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 25 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 26 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 30 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |