Example sentences of "tell him [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath told him before he left that the Government should have pushed ahead with ratification of the Maastricht Treaty , despite Denamrk 's no vote . |
| 2 | Mr Dalglish , who was angry that his side were not awarded a penalty for a first-half tackle by Madden on Wilcox , said later : ‘ The only person who did n't play was the referee and because I told him so he says he is going to report us . ’ |
| 3 | In 1946 , a ‘ religious friend ’ told him that he , Levi , belonged to an elect : ‘ I , the non-believer , and even less of a believer after the season of Auschwitz , was a person touched by Grace , a saved man . ’ |
| 4 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Duke had lived with Miss Jones , ’ he told Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , sitting with two other judges , ‘ and she told him that Mrs Sutcliffe had negotiated a contract with The Mail on Sunday . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him that was quite unnecessary , ’ Beeson said . |
| 7 | Jones , a fellow-Irishman who had a 75 , told him that he was not lining up his putter squarely . |
| 8 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 9 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 10 | One who did listened intently to Harry 's story and told him that the Germans inspected all sections of the vessel before sailing . |
| 11 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 12 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 13 | He told him that a mitre could be a candle-snuffer . |
| 14 | His long memory also told him that this was a moment of his life when he felt a total rapport with Fisher . |
| 15 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 16 | She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back . |
| 17 | We told him that this was a band for full-timers not part-timers . |
| 18 | His Majesty told him that the Conservatives and Liberals would support him in restoring the confidence of foreigners in the financial stability of the country ’ . |
| 19 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 20 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 21 | He was met by Kjell-Arne , his kennel boy , who told him that when he was eating his lunch he heard the noise of a dog scratching against the door . |
| 22 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 23 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Everything he had seen , read and heard told him that Britain was in grave danger from the excesses of industrialization , and nothing very significant was being done to halt the process . |
| 26 | Something in the loneliness and fear he had experienced during his ordeal told him that he did . |
| 27 | If she told him that something he had painted worked , he believed it — at least at the beginning of their marriage . |
| 28 | ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him . |
| 29 | I told him that he should n't use make-up , but he said , ‘ You do , Mummy ’ . |
| 30 | I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute . |