Example sentences of "[adj] tell him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 2 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 3 | Please be prepared to tell him , or her , exactly the type of person you are looking for , and give a full and detailed specification of the job that this person will be expected to do . |
| 4 | There was little she was free to tell him , but he was very interested in what she said and sorry to be interrupted by his telephone . |
| 5 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 6 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 7 | The second told him to question nothing . |
| 8 | Creggan was fascinated by this thought and wanted Kraal to tell him more about this place . |
| 9 | It would be very simple to tell him everything and leave him to unscramble the truth contained in the confusion . |
| 10 | That member may then think it appropriate to tell him . |
| 11 | It would be easy to tell him the truth but that would mean throwing Dana to the wolves , and that she could n't do . |
| 12 | She loved him too much to tell him the truth . |
| 13 | She wanted so much to tell him … but no , she must n't tell anybody . |
| 14 | She had n't much to tell him — merely that she had stopped on the bridge for a moment to look at the river , had been attracted by the gulls and then noticed what was exciting them . |
| 15 | It felt churlish to tell him that I was in a hurry , that the coffee would have to be quick . |
| 16 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
| 17 | It seemed imperative to tell him the truth . |
| 18 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 19 | Doyle , the Woman , the television news-readers , Hank , the girl and the policeman — even his own face in the mirror — all told him that he was Philip Doyle . |
| 20 | It was no good telling him that I had seen five prolapsed uteri in pigs in my limited experience and had failed in every case . |
| 21 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 22 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 23 | I shall be able to tell him tomorrow . |
| 24 | From his excited account I was able to tell him that that was the exact area in which I had , on my last visit , planted a hundred daffodil bulbs . |
| 25 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 26 | He was looking at outdoor cold stress and we were able to tell him about the extent of the particular housing problem in Scotland and how people could only afford to heat one room . |
| 27 | I was able to tell him that Nottingham children are better educated than he realised ! ’ he recalls happily . |
| 28 | Julie had only been able to tell him that it was urgent . |
| 29 | Later Joe came to see his mother and they were able to tell him that his and Sarah 's secret was known to them . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh no , you 've only just fallen asleep , ’ she was able to tell him . |