Example sentences of "have been telling [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 2 | Chairman of the Oxfordshire branch of the Council , Julian Blackwell has been telling Robin Powell that he 's delighted . |
| 3 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 4 | Harry Scott ( 81 ) , from Jordanstown has been telling stories all his life . |
| 5 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 6 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object-oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchetman Steve Ballmer has been telling people Windows NT will be available in May . |
| 9 | Our Washington correspondent Nick Peters has been telling Richard Dalling about the likely issues up for discussion . |
| 10 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 11 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 12 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 13 | It need n't mean that Dostoevsky had been telling lies and is now telling the truth in the privacy of his own notebooks . |
| 14 | Lord Justice Waller said he was ‘ quite satisfied that the Judge had ample grounds to make him sure that the appellants had been telling lies ’ . |
| 15 | For months and months people had been telling nomes what to do . |
| 16 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 17 | " You 've been telling lies . " |
| 18 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 19 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 20 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 21 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 23 | Senior White House aides and CIA officials have been telling members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees this week that Gen Noriega is drinking heavily , taking drugs , and is so nervous that he moves addresses four and five times a night . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been telling people children should n't play with matches for years but the message is n't getting across . |
| 25 | In fact for many years , the banks have been telling people to seek legal independent advice er since March nineteen ninety two , this has been a requirement of all loans . |
| 26 | He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success . |
| 27 | But he 's been telling members of the Environmental Protection Committee this afternoon that he has every confidence in the steps that Thames Water has taken to prevent an recurrence of the events of eighteen months ago . |
| 28 | He 's been telling FOX F M's Robin Powell that most of the job losses have already occurred . |
| 29 | ‘ Someone 's been telling tales again . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Someone 's been telling tales … |