Example sentences of "i tell him [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I told him that no Currer Bell lived in Haworth , and sent him away .
2 I told him that the police wanted to see him .
3 I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren .
4 It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job .
5 I walked back from the Meeting with Quintin who knew by then that he was Macmillan 's selection , and I told him that the idea had my support .
6 I told him that the Chester option would deliver a better service for the Army and a better deal for the taxpayer .
7 ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept .
8 I told him that the weather was horrendous on Tiree also , with cloud and heavy rain , and getting worse .
9 I tell him that a friend who is even now in the Karakoram had been told that in Pakistan it was advisable to double the suggested dose of tablets and then to boil the water for twenty minutes .
10 I tell him that the idea of investigating the life of a beautiful French anthropologist , who , in common with seventy thousand other Jews from France , was gassed ( in a crowd , indistinguishable to the SS as the laibon 's cattle are to me ) , was my starting point .
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