Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] 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 | in January the , she were telling me they delivered hundred and fifty nine new cars . |
| 9 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 10 | And I could see that this she were telling me . |
| 11 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 12 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 13 | This annoyed me , so when he said as we were driving off , ‘ What you were telling me — what happened ten years ago — did it work out all right ? ’ |
| 14 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 15 | You were telling me erm a little while back that erm you were made to go and work at Bilston . |
| 16 | All that stuff you were telling me yesterday . |
| 17 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 18 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 19 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 20 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 21 | Remember you were telling me . |
| 22 | I know you you were telling me you you were applying for erm to get meals on wheels , but you ha that has n't come through yet . |
| 23 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 24 | When I s first spoke to you erm earlier I mean , like last week , erm you were telling me er something about erm the involvement that this branch has had with the local community . |
| 25 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 26 | ‘ But you were telling me you had been warned , the night of our God-given victory . ’ |
| 27 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 28 | Oh of course you were telling me , aye . |
| 29 | ‘ You were telling me how important you and Dad had become . |
| 30 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |