Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] tell him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 2 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 3 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 4 | ‘ And I told him the mud in the high street was an absolute disgrace . |
| 5 | and I told him the ones to see . |
| 6 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 7 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 8 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 9 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 10 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 11 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 12 | All you need is enough 10–20mm diameter pea gravel to form a layer about 2in ( 50mm ) thick over the path or drive area ; your supplier will advise you on how much to order if you tell him the size of the area . |
| 13 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 14 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 15 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 16 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 17 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 18 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |