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Example sentences for "told him"

  • Mr. Pierce is due in three minutes," I told him.

  • And then he wanted to know what he was to do at the sanatorium and I told him as well as I could.

  • I'd thank you to take that messy thing out of here," I told him.

  • When I told him that I wrote considerably, he thought for a long time that it was merely the handwriting which I meant, for he could write a remarkably good hand himself.

  • But I fear that he was not the wiser for all I told him, for every time I attempted to answer his questions he interrupted me by asking, "What do you do here?

  • It was more than she need have told him; his action of forgetfulness had made him so angry with himself that he flushed through his tan.

  • I told him so; but the words of the faithful be only as wind!

  • That suppressed sympathy which had showed in her face ever since her arrival told him as much too plainly.

  • I told him everything; and by this time my renunciation of my rights to the estate of the Count de Chalusse is already recorded.

  • When I told him that I was resolved not to assert my rights, he seemed utterly confounded.

  • However it may have been, I told him my story, but not without changing the names, and omitting many particulars.

  • But no, he had still another request to make; and instinct, supplying the lack of education, told him that it was a delicate one.

  • Feeling myself very angry, I told him that if he continued persecuting me in that manner, I should be obliged to quarrel with him; adding, that I believed his only motive for asking me to buy the animal was to insult my poverty.

  • I told him that I could not think of selling her, as she was very useful to me, and though an animal, my true companion, whom I loved as much as if she were my wife and daughter.

  • I told him I had always felt that other people--he himself, for one knew her much better than I.

  • I told him he'd have to go to the Bohemians for beer; the Norwegians didn't have none when they threshed.

  • Once I told him he ought not to let Antonia work so hard and pull herself down.

  • I told him to be silent, and giving the woman two cuartos repeated my request; whereupon she took a pitcher, and, going to the stream, filled it with water.

  • I told him that he must think of nothing of the kind, as probably the books would be seized on the first attempt to introduce them into Toledo, as the priests and canons were much averse to their distribution.

  • I told him he was very kind, but I would rather go by myself.

  • I told him of my late ill success with the booksellers, and inveighed against their blindness to their own interest in refusing to publish my translations.

  • I really did want to consult Jude on a little matter of business, as I told him.

  • And I told him I was going to have another child.

  • In my telegram last night which this is an answer to, I told him I had almost made it up with Jude; and that frightened him, I expect!

  • And I told him that I wanted to marry you and ran away to Mexico with you, and that I was awfully happy until you told me that you couldn't marry me because--well, I told him why.

  • Well, I told him enough, and not too much.

  • But when I told him that I absolutely knew you wanted to marry me, that you would whenever you could, that seemed to help him a good deal.

  • I told him I did not know who should be coming upstairs, for I believed there was nobody in the house but the cook and the other maid, and they never came up those stairs.

  • Yes: it was when I heard you were coming that I told him.

  • The day before yesterday I told him, for the first time, that I meant to see him through, no matter what happened.

  • But you know I told him he could count on you.

  • I told him of a man out in California in 1847 who owned a ranch.

  • I told him to bring as many as he wanted to, for more than one would be an advantage, and when the evening came there were six friends with him.

  • I told him I had never seen it in the Bible, and advised him to go out into the chapel and get the Bible, and show me the place.

  • When I got a word in edgewise, I told him that I was going to contact the ombudsman and he said that I couldn't--that I had no recourse.

  • We told him that we were concerned that our student evaluations, which we had been told were confidential, and which we had been told had a specific purpose, had been sent outside the university without permission or knowledge of the students.

  • Diana's attorney knew only what she had told him and it was obvious there was a lot that he hadn't remembered.

  • I told him that I thought you had tried desperately hard to learn this material.

  • I told him to say to the governor that I would come on shore in the morning and see him, and land my cargo at the same time.

  • I told him to have the gig manned and I would go on shore with Colonel Royal, and get a receipt from Governor Marshall for my late cargo.

  • I told him to keep cool, since he was certainly safe as long as he was on board my ship.


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