Example sentences of "i told him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang up , just to check that he 'd taken it straight along there , like I told him to , and they said I had to fill in all these forms . |
| 2 | Was drunk , and so I told him to ‘ clear . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I told him to . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him to . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him to be sure not to fall into the wastepaper basket on his way out , ’ said Felicity , attempting to bury her parti-coloured face in her hands . |
| 6 | I asked him to I told him to . |
| 7 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 8 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 10 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 11 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 12 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 13 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 14 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 15 | I told him of my discovery . |
| 16 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 18 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 19 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 20 | ‘ That wo n't be a problem , ’ I told him with bravado , though I had n't a clue how I would get hold of the balance of the cash . |
| 21 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 22 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 23 | ‘ I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 . |
| 24 | Then I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 26 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 27 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 28 | I told him about subsidies and the situation of the crofters . |
| 29 | I told him about my robbery . |
| 30 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |