Example sentences of "[noun] told him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 6 | Briskly , Coffin told him of Christopher Court 's story and how the MP 's tale had led him to investigate the death of Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 7 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 8 | Unprompted , a farm labourer told him of the tradition of an old track precisely on the line where he had surmised the ley to be . |
| 9 | Athelstan told him of the visits to the death house and the gibbet . |
| 10 | Grunte nodded , and Amaranth told him of at least one of her ambitions : she wished to be adopted as candidate for a safe seat . |
| 11 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 12 | He tries to remember accurately Flaubert , which he was combing on the plane : ‘ Their indifferent glances told him of passion dulled by daily satisfaction . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building . |
| 14 | Urquhart knew him ; and falling into talk Paul told him of his predicament . |
| 15 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |