Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] tell [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 2 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 3 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 4 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 5 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 6 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 7 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 8 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 9 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 10 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 11 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 12 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 13 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 14 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 16 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 17 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 18 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 19 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 20 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 21 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 22 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 23 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 24 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 25 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |