Example sentences of "his father told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 2 | David handed the statuette to his father telling him he 'd won the contest and his father told him he knew he would succeed in the end . |
| 3 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 4 | From his knowledge of ‘ Romances , & Relations of Giants & Magicians , & Genii ’ , his mind was soon ‘ habituated to the Vast ’ , and when , walking home to Ottery one winter evening , his father told him the names of the stars ‘ and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world — and that the other twinkling stars were Suns that had worlds rolling round them ’ , Coleridge listened with profound delight , ‘ but without the least mixture of wonder or incredulity ’ . |
| 5 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 6 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |
| 7 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 8 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |