Example sentences of "i tell he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 2 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 3 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 4 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 5 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 7 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 8 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 9 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 10 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 11 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 12 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 14 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 15 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 16 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 17 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 18 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 19 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 20 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 21 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
| 22 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 23 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
| 24 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 25 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 28 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 29 | I tell him about the whisky story and the chill-filtering and the colouring but he already seems to know it all . |
| 30 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |