Example sentences of "he tell [pers pn] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad 'eard 'er an' 'e told 'er that while 'e 'ad two 'ands she was not to borrow money off 'er . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's not very nice to take a convicted criminal into your home and then to have him tell you that you 're of little consequence . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Eric built up a wonderful relationship with the fans and we 'll never forget him telling us that he loved us when the team were parading the League trophy . ’ |
| 4 | She wanted him to tell her that he loved her and none of this had happened . |
| 5 | I shall go to him to tell him that you want to speak to him personally and do not want to tell anybody else the reason . |
| 6 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 7 | He told her that he respected her . |
| 8 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 9 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 10 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 11 | He told her that the bracelet had the woman 's music in it , and sometimes , if you waited for rain and then listened very carefully , you could just hear it , very faintly , like someone playing in the distance . |
| 12 | Then he told her that he loved her . |
| 13 | He told her that , like Liza , he was an only child , that his father owned a garage , that he had already started to follow in his footsteps and hoped to continue in the motor trade as soon as the war was over . |
| 14 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 15 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 16 | After pausing for a second he must have relented , because he told her that if it was any help she could borrow benches and trestle tables . |
| 17 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 18 | Then , changing the subject , he told her that he was going to be the new head of economic analysis at Chessington-Harris . |
| 19 | When the girl asked him where he was going , he told her that they had to return to Moscow . |
| 20 | But soon after his marriage to Margaret Cairns White in 1937 , he told her that he was not British but American . |
| 21 | He told her that he was well and that he missed her a lot . |
| 22 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 23 | He told her that it was limited to secure £60,000 and would be released in a short time . |
| 24 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 25 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 26 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 27 | Felstead 's landlady says he told her that he definitely would n't be coming back . |
| 28 | He told her that the cross was not religious , but marked the place where a criminal was put to death and buried . |
| 29 | Worse , he told her that naturally he never used the lifts because if one were faulty he could be stuck a long time with no one to free him . |
| 30 | He told her that he was unmarried , and that he wanted to make her his wife . |