Example sentences of "[be] telling us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , next week , will be telling us about another one of these very controversial books , wo n't you ? |
| 2 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 3 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 4 | Not this dream you were telling us about , was it ? |
| 5 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 6 | He 's just been telling us about how this bloke 's condoms dropped out of his pocket . |
| 7 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 8 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 9 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 10 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 11 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 12 | A senior man in the Ministry of Defence was telling us of the ‘ battle for hearts and minds ’ which his department is conducting among the people of the border villages . |
| 13 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Captain Moreau was telling us about her . |
| 15 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |
| 16 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 17 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 18 | And so the relevance of that to what Andrea was telling us about is what ? |
| 19 | Now , it 's easy to see , if we 're talking about the kind of dreams that Reed was telling us about , erm , that there 's a simple wish with these dreams and in the end you wake up and you go and gratify the wish in that case . |
| 20 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 21 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 22 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 23 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 24 | Yeah , she was telling us about it that girl , in wr in writing , what it , she was telling us it , about it being formed at a different venue , but it 's actually the Mary Wallis Theatre . |