Example sentences of "[prep] telling he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates adjourned the case against Alfred Dines after telling him they were thinking of imposing a three month jail term . |
| 2 | The shock was so great that Luce was past telling him anything . |
| 3 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 4 | He advised me not to do so , as , he said , the Captain was a difficult man , and he had no intention of telling him himself . |
| 5 | My brother-in-law began setting up our platform , and I made the mistake of telling him to get a move on . |
| 6 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 7 | She thought of telling him that a note from their landlady , contemplating the disappearance of her husband forever , had gone , vanished , and just who , did he think , was likely to have taken it ? |
| 8 | To think of telling him , now , made me feel sick with horror . |
| 9 | ‘ It depends , ’ she said : she was feeling happier since Memet had arrived but would not have dreamed of telling him so . |
| 10 | She weighed the advantages of telling him about Nuadu and the terrible crimson mask against the matter of his allegiance . |
| 11 | Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike . |
| 12 | He looked at his slim gold wrist-watch and Claudia shook her head at Myra 's obvious intention of telling him that Dana did exist . |
| 13 | She had no intention of telling him that she would n't feel safe with him if she wore anything vaguely provocative . |
| 14 | And she had no intention of telling him just what she did think of him , not that it would have made sense , anyway — either to him or , more importantly , to herself . |
| 15 | Robyn looked at him and flirted with the idea of telling him where to get off . |
| 16 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 17 | She had prepared so many ways of telling him how accidental it had been , how only the thought that he was safe in France had made her bold enough . |
| 18 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 19 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 20 | Leonora longed for his company in much larger doses than he was able to spare , but had no intention of telling him so . |
| 21 | Erm so , so I mean and then , you know , he describes various examples where you know if you get hit by your best mate you basically , you know , instead of telling him to F off you say down with imperialism type of thing . |
| 22 | She felt like telling him who she was and what she had done , only he would n't be interested , he 'd be embarrassed . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like telling him there 's no Father Christmas , ’ she sniffed . |
| 24 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |
| 25 | For a moment Clare felt like telling him not to bother , just chuck the whole lot away . |
| 26 | It was n't his place to mind , she 'd felt like telling him . |
| 27 | Please open the door , she felt like telling him . |
| 28 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 29 | He was smiling again , so there could be no harm in telling him . |
| 30 | He felt some shame in digging up long-dead ghosts to torment Vologsky , and a sense of moral wrong in telling him such a bundle of blasphemous untruths . |