Example sentences of "told him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 3 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 6 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 7 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 8 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 9 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 10 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 11 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 12 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 13 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 14 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 15 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 16 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 17 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |