Example sentences of "[vb past] him that [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast . |
| 2 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 3 | The following afternoon , the appointments committee told him that they had offered the job to the other man and that he had accepted . |
| 4 | They also told him that they had talked to Lester Knox Coleman , a former agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Middle East , seeking confirmation of certain details of the story before airing their reports — in Salinger 's case , at a face-to-face meeting in London . |
| 5 | After an apparently unbreakable silence , Julia decided that she would have to say something else and so with considerable truth , she told him that she had missed him . |
| 6 | Eventually she told him that she had fallen in love with a man who was already married and her conscience was greatly troubled . |
| 7 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 8 | ‘ When she arrived at his flat one night and told him that she had left me after admitting everything , he was furious . |
| 9 | ‘ Then there was the day she told him that she had read his books . |
| 10 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 11 | When Muhammad Behbehanian , who was still in Morocco writing to all the Shah 's bankers , told him that he had heard Hassan wanted him out as quickly as possible to understand what had happened and why . |
| 12 | Then Pasternak 's office called him and told him that he had flunked the test . |
| 13 | For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign . |
| 14 | Mr. Gilberd instructed the defendant to confirm with the bank that the cheque was acceptable , and the defendant later told him that he had done so and that such a cheque was ‘ as good as cash . ’ |
| 15 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |
| 16 | The youngster told him that he had come from Wales to make his fortune as a pop singer . |
| 17 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 18 | The boy told him that he had got a place in a hostel , but that he would be lucky to get into a place like that if it was his first night . |
| 19 | The hire desk made a phonecall on the first credit card that he offered , and then told him that he 'd exceeded his limit and they could n't take the charge . |
| 20 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 21 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
| 22 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 23 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 24 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 25 | I told him that I had watched cows being milked — that was all — but I liked the look of it . |
| 26 | Back down here I told him that I had to get the sex business cleared up . |
| 27 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 28 | Bush 's attempt to revitalize the Republican Party — and to rally the support of its right wing after abandoning his " no new taxes " pledge [ see p. 37768 ] — received a serious setback on Dec. 13 when Bennett , the former " drugs tsar " , informed him that he had changed his mind and would not accept the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) . |
| 29 | Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis . |
| 30 | Of course , he was highly hacked about this — as only young Aussies of his type can be — and he insisted that he was not having his crew tampered with in any way , I agreed , but reminded him that he had volunteered to come here , so he could volunteer to go back to his squadron . |