Example sentences of "[pron] [be] telling me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually someone were telling me |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | Nobody was telling me what a terrific body I have . |
| 4 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 5 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 6 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 7 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 8 | Harriet , she begins to talk , feeling the wine in her head , and talking faster , you are telling me how you bought this pretty scenery for Mummy 's sake , partly . |
| 9 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |
| 10 | And what you are telling me is that he knew very well Aldhelm was to come here that night . |
| 11 | ‘ Sarah … you are telling me the truth , are n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You are telling me the truth , Rob ? |
| 13 | ‘ You are telling me , Warrender , that my niece is not travelling with the Parslows ? |
| 14 | ‘ You know something more than you are telling me , ’ Blake said to his companion . |
| 15 | Unless you are telling me that the sketch greenbelt local plan is the same as the deposited greenbelt local plan |
| 16 | What you are telling me is that you are the kind of person who needs emotional space , and if someone tries to occupy that space all the time , then you do n't want to know . |
| 17 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're telling me , ’ Billy continued . |
| 19 | ‘ And you 're telling me you were n't concussed ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're telling me they were murdered ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Finally I had to tell him , I do n't understand one word you 're telling me . ’ |
| 22 | You 're telling me ! |
| 23 | ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’ |
| 24 | Well you 're telling me other countries . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're telling me that it 's official Coutts policy to bounce a cheque on one of the ten biggest private companies in Britain ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 're telling me something , are n't you , ’ whispered Creggan , ‘ something I can do . |
| 27 | You 're telling me that instead of owning all of three oranges , I 'll own three quarters of four oranges . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 're telling me , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit . |
| 30 | You 're telling me that blokes we arrested , blokes we stood in court and saw sentenced , blokes we saw driven away in fucking armoured vans , have committed the exact same crimes that they were put away for ? |