Example sentences of "[pron] was telling me " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nobody was telling me what a terrific body I have . |
| 3 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 4 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 5 | 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 ! ! ! |
| 6 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 7 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 8 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 9 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
| 10 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 11 | But the old bat was always hanging around — and then the next thing I knew she was telling me you 'd signed the lease . |
| 12 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 13 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 14 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 15 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 16 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 17 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 18 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 19 | Conference , she was telling me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was telling me all about all of them and on the roof . |
| 22 | They went into the er Molly , she was telling me erm she with a bloke , I ca n't remember the they think he 's got ta go to Paris first and then , or France , there 's a show in France somewhere , I think it 's Paris , I do n't know and then he 's going over there , they 've had some more enquiries or something . |
| 23 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 24 | Yeah , I know she was telling me , there she is a highly qualified |
| 25 | She was telling me a bit about it . |
| 26 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 27 | so she was telling me all about it and er , the times they were going , oh it 'll be nice for them |
| 28 | She and er she was telling me about David 's mama , she said David 's mama |
| 29 | Oh , but she was telling me that down in Belfast everybody took , they used to say to her , fuck off Margot ! |
| 30 | She was telling me the other day . |