Example sentences of "tell [pron] what he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found .
2 Some man came round , and James phoned me afterwards , told me what he 'd said .
3 Sir Charles told everyone what he had written in his will . ’
4 He made as if to talk to them when they melted before his very eyes ; he could n't believe it and as the guard approached he told him what he had seen .
5 Corbett haltingly told her what he had discovered .
6 " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew .
7 He rang the bell for Mrs Bedwin , his housekeeper , and told her what he had heard .
8 He told her what he 'd said to the woman and how stupid he 'd felt .
9 Ralph told us what he had done .
10 Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money .
11 The teacher tells you what to do , or the manager tells you what he wants done , and it 's logical and it involves manipulating information , bringing files together , bringing tax together , working it all out , and it 's not calculation _ you 're manipulating information .
12 Without waiting for an answer he said , ‘ I 'll tell you what he 's got .
13 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
14 And the apostle Paul he gets open the scrolls and he starts in Genesis and he explains the plan of salvation , and he tells him what he 's got ta do , and he explains all the requirements , and about three or four hours later the man 's mind is completely blurred , he does n't understand a word of it , it 's gone way beyond him , course Paul does n't do that , he shoots back the answer straight away , believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved .
15 Yet here and elsewhere d'Indy adds parts silently , as we say , but only in the sense that he does not tell us what he has done .
16 Quinn persuaded Zack to tell him what he had heard , even though he knew .
17 He also knew this was not the moment to tell her what he 'd learnt today .
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