Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 2 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 3 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 5 | Soon she began telling me of a tasteless fellow-passenger of hers who , at this time the day before , had kept his nose buried in Doctor Zhivago while they flew in exquisite weather over the Gulf of Corinth . |
| 6 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 7 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 8 | I said earlier that we want to involve all aspects of the educational system , and for example we have already written to every local authority in the country , telling them about the general themes that we have identified as important , asking for their comments , for their suggestions of other matters that we should perhaps look into , and also asking for their help and involvement . |
| 9 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 10 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 11 | What information does it really carry , apart from telling you about the therapeutic inclinations of the caterwauler himself ? |
| 12 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 13 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 14 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
| 15 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 16 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 17 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 18 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 19 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 20 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 21 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |