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Example sentences for "telling him"

  • Disgusted with his importunity I rose to depart, telling him that "I should not return to visit him, as I did not believe he was the real Kamrasi.

  • We went to bed, continuing our discussions, and when we were in each other's arms we made an arrangement which suited us very well.

  • I told him that the portrait was a good though ugly likeness, and drew out of my pocket the gold snuffbox the prince had given me, telling him that it was a speaking likeness.

  • When I have to ford a river on my travels, he strips off his clothes without my telling him, and jumps in to see if I can across in safety.

  • As soon as he made his appearance, the ambassador handed him the copy of the pardon, telling him that he owed it all to me.

  • He asked me whether I could read Welsh, and on my telling him I could, he said that if I would walk in he would show me a Welsh book.

  • He refused to leave me, at first, but on my pressing him to do so, and on my telling him that I could find the way to the house of Gronwy very well by myself, he consented.

  • He then asked me if I knew Spanish, and on my telling him that I had some knowledge of that language, he asked me to translate some of the fables.

  • Sue still seemed sorry for her rashness, and to wish she had not rebelled; telling him at parting that she would let him know as soon as she got re-admitted to the training-school.

  • When the lady saw that he was quite exhausted, she asked him to leave, telling him to return to her chamber another day after he had rested, and he could take her as he pleased.

  • The emperor did everything he could to make Tirant dismount, telling him he would be given everything he needed in the palace, but Tirant insisted on leaving.

  • His Excellency showed that he loved him very much, indeed, telling him that he had fought without his permission against a man of enormous strength, the Lord of Escala Rompuda.

  • Tirant took the keys, and wanted to reply to what Plaerdemavida had told him, but it was impossible because the emperor was telling him to come right away.

  • At this moment a message arrived, telling him about an unfortunate event that had happened in the camp three days previously.

  • I cheerfully endeavoured to set his mind at rest by telling him of the contract I had made with Schott, who had bound himself to provide me with the necessary funds in the form of advances on my Meistersinger.

  • His mother, in telling him and me of the improvement in her position, declared that she was now able to assure me the income which the two families of Laussot and Ritter had offered me some time ago.

  • She began to chatter in her bright way, telling him of a new commission she had to provide a novelette for a firm which had not hitherto employed her.

  • Daly waited a minute or two for his answer, and, finding that he said nothing, left him alone for a time, to make up his mind, telling him that he would return in about a quarter of an hour.

  • Divil a tell for me thin,--shure, he may find it out hisself, widout my telling him.

  • Thus I flung off in a passion, telling him that I would soon show him that I spoke truth.

  • The greater part of them rated the captain, telling him that he was in the wrong, that I was a man to give him back as good as I got, and that if this came to the Duke’s ears, it would be the worse for him.

  • The Pope took my patent and handed it to the Datary, telling him to lose no time in dispatching the business.

  • Miss Cynthia wrote a letter to Murray Bradshaw that very evening, telling him that he had better come back to Oxbow Village as quickly as he could, unless he wished to find his place occupied by an intruder.

  • He wrote a letter to his partner, telling him that he had left to join one of the regiments forming in the city.

  • But he, brave man, telling him he could not accept the obligation of life from the hands of one who had been the ruin of his country, went in among the rest, and submitted willingly to the stroke.

  • Dick was just the man I wanted; kindly and shrewd in his nature, and prompt in his actions, I should have no difficulty in telling him my suspicions, and could rely upon his sound sense to point out the best course to pursue.

  • I was endeavouring to amuse Harton to-day and to while away the time by telling him some of the experiences of my past life.

  • Then he parted from the horse, who gave him a hair and a flint, telling him to light the hair when ever he needed him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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