Example sentences of "told him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go ashore , ’ she told him through teeth that clattered together unpleasantly . |
| 2 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 3 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better go and look over the script before dinner , ’ she told him without meeting his eyes . |
| 5 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 6 | She told him during breakfast . |
| 7 | Judge Peter Greenwood told him at Chelmsford Crown Court : ‘ You are a dangerously sick man . ’ |
| 8 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 9 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 10 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 17 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 18 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 19 | Told him with great enthusiasm . |
| 20 | The professor , noting the youth 's failure to appreciate his find , told him with impatience to look at it more carefully . |
| 21 | Andrew had not been pleased , not at all pleased , when she told him : told him with an almost religious reticence . |
| 22 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 24 | ‘ My only desire is to ensure that I remain dry-eyed , ’ she told him with a detachment she certainly did n't feel . |
| 25 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 27 | Better get out there and have a look just the same , Cesena told him with a hint of malice . |
| 28 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |