Example sentences of "[noun] told him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 2 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 3 | Grimma told him about events in the quarry — the fight with the humans , and the stealing of Jekub the earth-mover to escape . |
| 4 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 5 | As a succession of paycops , stewardesses , diplomatics , immigration officials , armourcabbies , narcotics relay expeditors , hotel functionaries , arms dealers and hookers told him to ‘ have a snazz day ’ and shoved his credit card through their machines , he wondered whether they would like the real 21st century when Nguyen Seth rained it down on them . |
| 6 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 7 | It 's history now that the great Bob Paisley told him to be more ruthless for goals — and ten years on , he 's enjoying scoring more than ever . |
| 8 | Zack told him in three angry sentences . |
| 9 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 10 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 11 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 12 | ‘ Rachel 's , ’ Maria told him in a quietly biting tone , although she was still shaking inwardly . |
| 13 | Kelly told him about the call to the weighing room , her father 's letter , the death of Broom-Parker . |
| 14 | Karen told him about her life and her work , and why she was in Haiti . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think you did make a mistake , ’ Ruth told him with resignation . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 17 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 18 | The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ . |
| 19 | Pete told him about Donald . |
| 20 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 21 | Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat . |
| 22 | The arrival of tea had changed the atmosphere , and Roger cast aside his rather sombre mood and listened with genuine interest while Breeze told him about Felicity . |
| 23 | Lucy Lane told him about the journal . |
| 24 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 25 | A friend told him about Nolan and , after three visits to his Ayrshire clinic , he was ‘ as good as cured ’ and playing golf again . |
| 26 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 27 | Grateful for the Burford man 's help , Seb told him of finding Anna in the Wychwood Forest , adding , ‘ It 's lucky she did n't die before we found her . |
| 28 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 29 | Anna told him about her childhood , about the house in West Kensington that resembled a gigantic , filthy theatrical props cupboard , smelling of face powder and cats and old ashtrays , where a five-foot plaster saint , dumped on the drawing-room sofa three years before , as a joke , by one of her mother 's lovers , had subsequently never been moved . |
| 30 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |