Example sentences of "tell him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1946 , a ‘ religious friend ’ told him that he , Levi , belonged to an elect : ‘ I , the non-believer , and even less of a believer after the season of Auschwitz , was a person touched by Grace , a saved man . ’ |
| 2 | I wrote back , Paz said , I told him , Dada dead as dodo eat your hat . |
| 3 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
| 4 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 5 | Goldberg 's face when I told him , he wrote . |
| 6 | I told him , Between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
| 7 | You 'd have got better anyway , I told him . |
| 8 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 9 | I told him all that left me cold . |
| 10 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 11 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 12 | Told him only Moira F. had seen it so far . |
| 13 | Told him there would also be something specifically for him when it was done . |
| 14 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 15 | I do n't live in London , I told him . |
| 16 | Besides , I told him , I like sewers . |
| 17 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
| 18 | I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent . |
| 19 | It does n't concern me , I told him . |
| 20 | Again I told him why . |
| 21 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh — you told him that ! ’ chorused Ethel and Mary . |
| 23 | I told him they danced very intimate-like , with her twigging his ear and whispering in it , and dancing closer and closer . |
| 24 | ‘ Dorothy 's off to visit some friends in Italy , ’ Jane told him . |
| 25 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 26 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 27 | I told him sex could damage the baby . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As do the stories she told him . |
| 30 | She told him . |