Example sentences of "told him [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 15 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 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 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 18 | It was Pam , much more worldly-wise than he , who told him about the affair . |
| 19 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 20 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 21 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 22 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 23 | Kelly told him about the call to the weighing room , her father 's letter , the death of Broom-Parker . |
| 24 | Billy 's eyes shone as Yanto told him about the bike . |
| 25 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 26 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 27 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 28 | Meanwhile his father , his voice reverberating in a way that hinted at the extent of the invisible spaces about them , told him about the tunnel , when it was opened and how long it was and how deep below the surface . |
| 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 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |