Example sentences of "to tell [pron] [that] he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 2 | The previous year , he had left the attic at 8 a.m. and had not returned until after 11 p.m. , having failed to tell me that he was intending to spend the day with Maman , and why . |
| 3 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 4 | She felt herself responding , trying not to think of red roses , and the staff nurse on Rainbow , trying to tell herself that he was kissing her because he wanted to , because he liked her . |
| 5 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |