Example sentences of "[coord] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 2 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 3 | I just gave him a piece of fruit , Oscar said , and told him to learn French . |
| 4 | ‘ So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’ |
| 5 | One who did listened intently to Harry 's story and told him that the Germans inspected all sections of the vessel before sailing . |
| 6 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 7 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 8 | MacDonald saw the King at 10.30 a.m. and told him , as he recorded in his diary , |
| 9 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 10 | We rang our dog man , Odd-Knut Thoresen , and told him we had arrived . |
| 11 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 12 | ‘ After that race , ’ he says , ‘ I met Alec Harvey-Bailey by the side of the road near Silverstone and told him I would stay with BRM . |
| 13 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 14 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 16 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 17 | GLOUCESTERSHIRE 's new acting manager and senior coach , Eddie Barlow , last night met the county 's former skipper David Graveney , due to lead the rebel tour of South Africa , and told him he feared the tour fixtures might not be completed . |
| 18 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 19 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 20 | They called back Washbrook , now 41 , and told him to get up to Headingley with his bat and pads . |
| 21 | Two days before he tortured Doe to death , Mr Johnson hugged and embraced his future victim , and told him that they should join sides . |
| 22 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 23 | By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease . |
| 24 | The Pay Sergeant had thrust a Railway Warrant into his hand and told him where the baggage had been dumped . |
| 25 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 26 | His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 28 | When Clark had to hire someone to become chief executive of the new regulatory authority , the Treasury gave him a list of nine admirals , seventeen generals and six air marshals and told him they 'd be disappointed if he did n't find the right chap among them . |
| 29 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 30 | One of the high points in the life of Ellen Garwood , a wealthy Texas widow and author , was the day she sat with Reagan in the Oval Office ( ’ we had Sanka ’ ) and told him that he ought to get rid , first , of the Sandinistas , and second of the secretary of state . |