Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 2 | Yeah but he told me he told me he told |
| 3 | ‘ Billy told me he kissed you in the rose gardens , ’ Annie said smiling . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that why you told me he had something to do with the murder ? ’ |
| 5 | I remember a while ago someone told me he thought I should be wearing platform shoes , but we 're not into having symbols of different generations , we 're just into style as a ‘ thing ’ : we 're into flaunting things , it 's just part of what we are . ’ |
| 6 | An Englishman whose bus broke down there told me he thought he was dying . |
| 7 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 8 | ‘ Jacqui and Meik told me he made you do some dreadful things . ’ |
| 9 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 10 | ‘ Marty , the director , was very wise to wait until the end of filming because he never told me he wanted me to do it . |
| 11 | Senga blinked back tears , " he told me he loved me and that he 'd come back for me when he 'd made his fortune and could afford to take me away . " |
| 12 | He told me he dumped you is that true ? |
| 13 | He was n't helped by the fact that Stanley Baxter told him he thought he was inhibited in the part . |
| 14 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 17 | Messam ( 21 ) showed no emotion at the Old Bailey as the Common Serjeant of London , Judge Robert Lymbery , told him he terrified his victims into submission at gunpoint . |
| 18 | His wife is searching for the book because Ward told her he had it . |
| 19 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 20 | Everything about him was so dear to her now ; his smile , his face , the soft huskiness in his voice that told her he wanted her . |
| 21 | No way , she felt , of changing things with him , she was just there with him , he told her he loved her so there she was , identified and placed by the words he spoke of her . |
| 22 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 23 | During the 23-minute chat he called her by her pet name ‘ Squidgy ’ , told her he loved her and asked her to blow kisses down the phone to him . |
| 24 | He told her he stole it . |
| 25 | He told her he missed her and his family , and that the prince his brother would shortly be paying him a visit . |
| 26 | He wanted to know what she thought about everything , because as he told her he found everything she had to say so interesting . |
| 27 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 28 | His wife and his secretary said he had told them he knew he was on Tehran 's ‘ hit list . ’ |
| 29 | Simon has told me he asked you and you have given him hope . |
| 30 | I thought the Brigadier had told you he suspected him of running some racket on the side . ’ |