Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 2 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 3 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 4 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 5 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 6 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 7 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 8 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 9 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 10 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 11 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 12 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 13 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 14 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 15 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |