Example sentences of "told him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 3 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 4 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 5 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 6 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 7 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 8 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 9 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 10 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 11 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 12 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 13 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 14 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 15 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 16 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 17 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |