Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not go around public houses asking if my wife is telling me the truth . |
| 5 | ‘ Sarah … you are telling me the truth , are n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As is whether you were actually telling me the truth , or lying . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters whether you 're telling me the truth or not , but I think you probably are . |
| 8 | ‘ You are telling me the truth , Rob ? |
| 9 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 10 | I have a servant who helps me but always I wonder if she is telling me the truth or merely being kind . ’ |
| 11 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 12 | You have nothing — nothing ! — to fear if you 're telling me the truth . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ Are you sure you 're telling me the truth ? ’ |
| 14 | Unless you want to make the excursion unnecessary by telling me the truth ? ’ |
| 15 | She has probably known what the doctor is going to say and may feel she has betrayed the family or patient and her relationship with them by not previously telling them the truth . |
| 16 | I made a mistake by telling them the truth actually and they said you have admitted your fault . |
| 17 | I 'm telling you the truth ! ’ |
| 18 | The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am telling you the truth , Headmistress , ’ she said . |
| 20 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth . |
| 22 | " I 'm telling you the truth . " |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she said gently . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she persisted . |
| 25 | Ah , I 'm telling you the truth . |
| 26 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you have any reason whatsoever to doubt that I 'm telling you the truth — other than the fact that I 'm a singer ? |
| 30 | and it was as simple as that , it was only until that I got all the paperwork from Germany that the letters and one thing and another , but somebody in there said to them well you 're talking rubbish cos the girl 's telling you the truth |