Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] told he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom did very well at the Guildhall where nobody told him he should stop singing , a piece of good news he passed on triumphantly to his grandmother . |
| 2 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 3 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 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 thought they were beautiful in their male hardness and power , so I told him : ‘ Dana , your hands are perfect , front and back . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 7 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 8 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 9 | This was very promising indeed and Paul , the breeder , sounded like a really nice , caring sort of chap , so I told him I was very interested , and would call with a definite answer in a few days . |
| 10 | He said he was a Bill Francis , so I told him we had a General Francis talking to Mum in the sitting-room , and he seemed ever so surprised ! |
| 11 | ‘ So I told him it was over . |
| 12 | Even that did not stop Pugh getting quizzical looks from the referee who asked about his age , so I told him that he was not the Pugh named as sub in the programme but the club mascot . |
| 13 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 14 | But at the interview he said , " I could n't figure out if you were at school or not " , so I told him and he said , " And you 've managed to do your A levels ? " |
| 15 | I ca n't put on the black and peach creations he bought before , so I told him to go and get something sensible at Marks and Spencer . |
| 16 | Rosie 's got the stuff again and she did n't get it from him , so I told him Oliver had supplied her . |
| 17 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 18 | Broussac once asked what I was doing in Paris , so I told him . |
| 19 | ‘ So I told him ‘ yes ’ without bothering to consult you . ’ |
| 20 | Although she told him she had nothing to say which might help , he was very persistent . |
| 21 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 22 | ‘ So you told him about Estabrook ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So you told him to get stuffed , did you ? ’ |
| 24 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 25 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 26 | We bought , we bought him a load of revision books erm from Smith 's er not for maths but for chemistry , biology , physics , ma , not maths something else , Cherry went and bought four of them and Helen had got one for French anyway , so we told him he 's got to erm get down to some serious |
| 27 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 28 | He seemed relaxed again , and I told him , ‘ Hit a good shot and just relax . ’ |
| 29 | He two-putted and we hugged and I told him how proud I was . |
| 30 | We went to a café and I told him to get what he wanted . |