Example sentences of "tell him on " in BNC.

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1 When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V
2 ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first .
3 But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets .
4 ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before .
5 She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered .
6 He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died .
7 The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick .
8 She would tell him on Friday .
9 I could n't wait to tell him on Monday .
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