Example sentences of "be telling i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 're telling me other countries . |
| 2 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ But you 're telling me all the suspicions about Mills are unfounded ? ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 5 | ooh , you should n't be telling me all this |
| 6 | I suppose you 'll be telling me next that most normal people would immediately assume that you were here to discuss the state of French politics ! ’ |
| 7 | You 'll be telling me next I 'm wrong to interfere . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Very ; you 'll be telling me next you baked these yourself . ’ |
| 9 | You 'll be telling me next that you do n't really care if the earrings go with the dress ! ’ |
| 10 | " Father , " she interrupted eventually , " why would you be telling me these things when I know them already ? " |
| 11 | Next you 'll be telling me this Rosie girl 's a virgin ! ’ |
| 12 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 13 | Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it . |
| 14 | ‘ Chico 's been telling me all kinds of interesting stuff . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 17 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |
| 18 | Can I take up this point about the forty three forty three , the chairman is telling me thirty four . |
| 19 | She 's telling me these little bits to write down . |
| 20 | She was telling me all about all of them and on the roof . |
| 21 | so she was telling me all about it and er , the times they were going , oh it 'll be nice for them |
| 22 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 23 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 24 | Well Pete was telling me that . |
| 25 | Oh , but she was telling me that down in Belfast everybody took , they used to say to her , fuck off Margot ! |
| 26 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 27 | Yes Julie was telling me last night . |
| 28 | ‘ Some people were saying one thing , the chairman was telling me another . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dorothy was telling me this morning you know when we were at erm nursery ? |