Example sentences of "his [noun] and told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 2 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 3 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 4 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 5 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 7 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 8 | He went back to his woman and told her , |
| 9 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 10 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 11 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 12 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 13 | He had held her in his arms and told her that he loved her , and she had never doubted him . |
| 14 | The Pay Sergeant had thrust a Railway Warrant into his hand and told him where the baggage had been dumped . |
| 15 | He said she held his hand and told him : ‘ Do n't worry , I 'll be all right . |
| 16 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 17 | Some time later , the officer touched his shoulder and told him that the court was ready . |
| 18 | Eventually someone put him out of his misery and told him , between guffaws , that he was in fact conversing with has-been '80s saddoes CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT . |
| 19 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 20 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 21 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 22 | He was about to join his companions on the balcony when someone whom he could not see touched his arm and told him he was needed somewhere else . |
| 23 | ‘ He immediately rang his bosses and told them of the theft . |
| 24 | Then he turned to his son and told him to sing fandangos in the way he had been shown . |
| 25 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 26 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 27 | I threw the last one 's sketches across his office and told him : shoddy , unexciting , no thanks . |