Example sentences of "[was/were] tell the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , therefore , Ministers were told the truth for which they were wholly unprepared , they were dazed . |
| 2 | A second registrar examined Christopher , but decided it was possible Celia and Danny were telling the truth . |
| 3 | The people who said it were telling the truth . |
| 4 | ‘ At least , he had n't if they were telling the truth . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You were telling the truth ? ’ he demanded . |
| 6 | ‘ So you were telling the truth , ’ Roman said , his eyes going from one to the other . |
| 7 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 8 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 9 | If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands . |
| 10 | All I had done was tell the truth . |
| 11 | All she had to do was tell the truth and she would be free . |
| 12 | The constable did investigate the incident and proudly told colleagues later how his discretion and instinct had proved correct : the man was telling the truth . |
| 13 | But this time , it turns out he was telling the truth . |
| 14 | Nigel did not risk arguing in case she was telling the truth . |
| 15 | Aberdour was brought to the court from Holloway prison yesterday to hear Mr Finucane say she ‘ was telling the truth and Mr Gray 's allegations were entirely bogus ’ . |
| 16 | She described carefully what had happened while she was in Horsfall Woods , and to prove she was telling the truth she showed the police-sergeant the torn envelope . |
| 17 | The football authorities in England accepted the explanation and sided with Gallacher and the Newcastle team , probably as a gesture of national protocol rather than with the conviction that the Scot was telling the truth . |
| 18 | ‘ No , it ent , ’ and Willie knew by the certainty in his voice that he was telling the truth . |
| 19 | Asked if she wast sure Mr Onanuga was telling the truth , she replied : ‘ Why would he tell a lie ? |
| 20 | Joanna 's grandfather was also adamant she was telling the truth . |
| 21 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 22 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 23 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 24 | It was n't all that much help , anyway , as far as tracing the kidnappers was concerned , but it did mean that on that point at least the Nilsen girl was telling the truth . |
| 25 | The doctor looked into the Englishman 's eyes , saw that he was telling the truth . |
| 26 | You think he was telling the truth when the said the anti-liberal operation starts today ? ’ |
| 27 | But this is no independent check : it is rather like buying a second copy of the same newspaper in order to check on whether the first was telling the truth . |
| 28 | From the co-operative principle , I also assumed that my neighbour was telling the truth ( there was no evidence that she was lying , hallucinating , or playing a practical joke ) . |
| 29 | I hope she was telling the truth . |
| 30 | But if Alexei said that he was not involved , then probably he was telling the truth , otherwise there would be no reason for him to say anything at all . |