Example sentences of "[be] tell [pers pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 2 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 3 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 6 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 7 | She 's told you about the bathing ? ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 9 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 10 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 11 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 18 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |