Example sentences of "his [noun pl] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the rings on his fingers told them who he was . |
| 2 | My last question to him there was what his reaction would be if one of his sons told him he wanted to marry a coloured girl . |
| 3 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 4 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 5 | She felt strangely shy about undressing in front of him , and the look in his eyes told her he understood . |
| 6 | The look in his eyes told her quite clearly he did n't believe a word of it , and she struggled to maintain a bland , ingenuous expression on her own features , wondering if even he could be cruel enough to brand her a liar . |
| 7 | The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too . |
| 8 | The gleam in his eyes told her he was ready for the challenge . |
| 9 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 10 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 11 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 12 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 13 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 14 | His senses told him that Cora-Beth was as eager as he for closer intimacies , and she made no attempt to draw back when he unbuttoned her coat and felt for the soft warmth of her breasts . |
| 15 | We have also heard some honest interventions , however , The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) staggered to his feet to tell us that he did not believe a word of what Ministers were saying . |
| 16 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 17 | Mr Li is not an economist , but at least he recognises some of the imperfections of the policy his economists tell him to follow . |
| 18 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |
| 19 | I do n't know what Tod makes of them , except that his glands tell me he could do without any special attention , or any attention at all . |
| 20 | Prince Charles , a man who by his own admission fell in love easily , pressed his suit even though his advisers told him that she had other boyfriends . |
| 21 | He cut it very short and all his friends told him it made him look years younger . |
| 22 | Wood was flying completely blind , but there were occasions when the various instruments contradicted one another , such were the violent changes of attitude , while the seat of his pants told him something entirely different . |
| 23 | Can a manager feel happy making strategic decisions simply on the basis of what his lieutenants tell him , without satisfying himself that they are not simply spouting the IBM conventional wisdom that has got the company into the mess it is in today ? |
| 24 | And no , his agents tell me , he is not troubled by autograph-hunters seeking the Botham signature . |
| 25 | Advertising is a one-way hard-sell in a political campaign and can be a good motivator as long as it does n't try to sell the voter something his guts tell him is n't true . |
| 26 | Mr Aycliffe will be back today or tomorrow , so his clerks told me . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're out of date because you know a lot ’ , one of his colleagues tells him . |
| 28 | When Dulé looked back he smelled the burning of the Rebecca on the breeze ; his companions told him that the column of pitchy smoke rose in the dawn like an offering . |
| 29 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 30 | His instincts told him she was still the same mad tomboy he had known before the war . |