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Example sentences for "tell him"

  • And how much will YOU, Miles, have to tell him?

  • Tell him I am out--for mercy's sake don't say I'm sick.

  • Miss Innes, I can not marry him, and I am afraid to tell him.

  • Now what'll he say when I tell him I'm a Presbyterian?

  • So I hurriedly dressed and hastened down to tell him before he went.

  • Tell him I will bring his son Svein so many, that he shall not think he is in want of any.

  • King Olaf heard this news, for many had something to tell him about it; and the conversation in the court often turned upon it.

  • King Harald told a warlock to hie to Iceland in some altered shape, and to try what he could learn there to tell him: and he set out in the shape of a whale.

  • But when I tell him, you may depend on it he will say, 'Why not?

  • He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies?

  • I tell him he is undervaluing the God who made him, and made him a most excellent preacher.

  • He went on asking questions and of course I had to tell him.

  • I meant to tell him; but you must have a minute after a thing like that.

  • Then do you mean you're going to tell him my foolish remark?

  • Probably May never thought she would have the chance, but the others were so busy crying harder, now that they had an audience, that she was first to tell him: "We have got a little sister.

  • Mas'r says I shall go to torment, and I tell him I've got thar now!

  • Tell him how I went, and why I went; and tell him I'm going to try and find Canada.

  • And, I'll tell him ye won't let the women come to the mills, yo old nigger!

  • Don't let us tell him, but if you have a little basket give it to me.

  • Whiteland,' answered the man, and then he begged the youth to tell him whence he came and what he was going to do, and the youth did so.

  • Then the old man went down on his knees before the King and begged for time to tell him everything.

  • Tell him that it is I, and I have come he well knows why.

  • How can I tell him he is mean, how can I tell him he has deceived me, how can I disgrace him in the eyes of the world after that?

  • I didn't tell HIM; but I'll tell YOU, in confidence.

  • I had expected to see him in the boardroom, on the Monday evening of which I am now writing, and had proposed to tell him, when we met, of dear Aunt Verinder's arrival in London.

  • Tell him, if you please, what you have just told me.

  • I tried to tell him of the fear that had frozen me up.

  • Valorsay were ignorant of the Count de Chalusse's critical condition, was it advisable to tell him of it?

  • And now, when I tell him what I really am, will he think me unworthy of him?

  • But I have an idea that my guv'nor will hardly laugh when I tell him this.

  • He was encouraged to chance a parting shot, now, at the same target, and did it.

  • Roxana said: "Here is de plan, en she'll win, sure.

  • She sat down on her candle box and fell into a reverie.

  • You'll go to him with your violin at your chin and the bow drawn across the strings to tell him of the beautiful world you have found.

  • Dear me, David, I hope you didn't tell him so.

  • He isn't well, Lady of the Roses, and he's unhappy.

  • But the boys only scoffed when he asked them to teach him how to play.

  • With increasing wonder he looked into Miss Holbrook's eyes.

  • I like it here, and I've always been here.

  • Tell him I wish to see him at once in the library.

  • Tell him to come in," and the housekeeper's cold face became softer and pleasanter in aspect as a young man of twenty entered and greeted her carelessly.

  • Tell him I'm going to the game today to choose the best one.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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