Example sentences of "told [noun prp] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He want out at half-seven and told Sarah he was going to the yard to work on the books . ’ |
| 2 | Newmarket Magistrates told Youds he came close to being disqualified for a speeding offence which warranted a six unit fine . |
| 3 | I told Gary he should have said , ‘ And they must make you so proud ; everyone can see where they got their looks , Mother . ’ |
| 4 | The barman smiled back and told Whitlock he would be with him shortly . |
| 5 | The judge Lord Cullen told Boyce he was a danger to the public and sentenced him to a minimum of twenty years . |
| 6 | Well , after answering questions on the Highway Code , Barry Silk told Roger he 's passed . |
| 7 | Doreen looked down at her hands , then admitted reluctantly , ‘ If you must know — he told Jean he likes Lucy , and that he hopes she will never leave this place . |
| 8 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |
| 9 | He parked the Passat and told Maisie he was going to buy some aspirin . |
| 10 | I told Malpass he could find me at Stuart Street and , for a couple of streets , I did head that way . |
| 11 | A twin-engined fighter is a beast , I told Messerschmitt he should go back to the drawing board . |
| 12 | A shout told Sharpe he had indeed been seen . |
| 13 | The day I left school I told Granpa he could lie in while I went off to Covent Garden to fill up the barrow , but he would n't hear of it . |
| 14 | ‘ I told Walt he 'd never stand the heat , but he would n't listen . ’ |
| 15 | Here , he reiterated the British position based on the new White paper with ‘ bluntness ’ ; he told Berle he was not prepared to discuss routes , but could discuss the principles of a civil aviation convention and the equitable division of traffic . |
| 16 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 17 | Instead , he told Bastin he was a natural winger . |
| 18 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 19 | He told Ecclestone he did n't want to drive any more , he wanted out . |
| 20 | He told Helen he must have gone off his head : he had written three lots of verses in one week ( including the one on Old Margaret and Headington Hill printed in Collected Poems , p. 458 ) . |
| 21 | He was upset and told Mona he would come with us . |
| 22 | Days after Dean disappeared , Osborne told Joanne he was going to look for him . |
| 23 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 24 | Prof. Wylie told Humphrey he 'd have to renew Theo 's fellowship — ca n't lose two senior lecturers at once , you know — and Humphrey just about blew a gasket . |
| 25 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 26 | He slumped in a chair with his head in his hands and told Pilger he was already exhausted by the workload and the pressures . |
| 27 | It was the ice-blue eyes which told Tweed he was right . |
| 28 | John Romain , Chief Engineer and pilot for ARCO recently experienced his first flight on the aircraft , a flight that he told Lindsey he had waited to accomplish for many years . |
| 29 | A hotel insider told the Sun , ‘ Mr Blower just wanted a quiet family party and when he told McAvennie he could n't get in there was a lot of pushing and shoving . ’ |
| 30 | MacArthur remained sceptical and told Gascoigne he doubted whether Washington meant business on the treaty : in his opinion it was a ‘ smokescreen ’ intended to mollify those allied countries who had made representations . |