Example sentences of "told him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick was hitting the ball too low , and David told him to swing under more and finish higher . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him to wear plastic but he said he could n't feel it ’ is reinforced by the line , ‘ ask them if they paid their child support last week ’ . |
| 3 | Fagin told him to drink it fast . |
| 4 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 5 | Some of his supporters on the Hill told him to press on further with deficit reduction while he had a fair wind . |
| 6 | Irina had been brisk when she called with the news and told him to telephone Rakovsky at his hotel . |
| 7 | So they pulled in ahead of the taxi rank in the underpass , and the one next to Joe leaned across him and opened the door , and almost in unison they told him to bugger off home . |
| 8 | I think Matthew er told him to bugger off I think . |
| 9 | ‘ And you told him to give himself up ? ’ |
| 10 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 11 | The magistrate consulted the King who told him to allow Richard Baxter to die at home . |
| 12 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 13 | Hitch told him to back off , then moved across . |
| 14 | He must not look at her until she told him to do so . |
| 15 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 16 | Gabriel remained standing at the top of the steps : Garvey told him to do so . |
| 17 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 18 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 19 | I told him flatly , and I told him to shock . |
| 20 | Franco became very alarmed at this and told him to put his money away immediately . |
| 21 | Wisdom Smith told him to put it out . |
| 22 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 23 | Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 25 | I told him to go to hell ! |
| 26 | First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 28 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 29 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 30 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |