Example sentences of "[adv] tell him " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 2 | Coleen listened to his amorous overtures of love never doubting his sincerity , but she still wanted to be sure and she tried to gently tell him so ; she had to be sure before she said ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 4 | Done half a day I suppose we 'd better tell him that we 're taping |
| 5 | Oh well you 'd better tell him then . |
| 6 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 7 | Well dear you wo n't worry , I 'll shall soon tell him to ! |
| 8 | But she could not tell him her real reason for trying to dissuade him . |
| 9 | ‘ You will not tell him that you know of his lapse , will you ? ’ |
| 10 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 11 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 12 | He 'd think she was an imbecile , anyway , so why not tell him and prove him right . |
| 13 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 14 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 15 | But Louise could not tell him . |
| 16 | So they did not tell him where Jesus was , but made their way home without going back to Jerusalem . |
| 17 | " Well , he does n't know and you 'll not tell him , will you ? " |
| 18 | I did , but could not tell him . |
| 19 | Again , so far as the language of the statute is concerned , I can see no reason in principle why the constable in the course of explaining to the driver his rights under section 8(2) should not tell him , if it be the case , that he , the constable , will require the replacement specimen to be of blood . |
| 20 | Since I am a mild and humane man , I did not tell him that it was utterly hopeless , but as a matter of deference to him I presented his formula to George Elvin , who declined to have anything to do with it . |
| 21 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 22 | I did not tell him I had actually spoken those words many miles away , at that exact moment on that night , because I could hardly understand how it happened myself . |
| 23 | Frightened for the Englishman , because she well knew that her brother had an uncontrollable temper , she did not tell him anything . |
| 24 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 25 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
| 26 | So she did not tell him that she was too shaky later to resume the conversation for a different reason ; she did not describe to him — or to the readers of Blot — what ensued . |
| 27 | Father Jankowski looked at me so kindly I could not tell him . |
| 28 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 29 | She knew she had better not tell him how much it had cost . |
| 30 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |