Example sentences of "he [be] telling me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was matter-of-fact about it , as if he were telling me what time it was . |
| 2 | Your Bill nearly hit it other week he were telling me . |
| 3 | ‘ He is telling me that we are here , ’ said Giles to himself . |
| 4 | Scott thought , He 's telling me that she 's hysterical . |
| 5 | urgh that does n't sound very nice to me , I like strawberry cheese cake though he 's telling me something about strawberry and cheese |
| 6 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 7 | some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him |
| 8 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 9 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 10 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 11 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 12 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 13 | Do you know , yesterday he was telling me about his past . |
| 14 | She said , ‘ That 's what he was telling me . |
| 15 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 16 | ‘ He was telling me something indelicate about a horse , ’ said Lydia . |
| 17 | Maybe he was telling me lies . |
| 18 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 19 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 20 | But he was telling me that there 's twenty one cars been stolen from the car park this year . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 22 | He was telling me that pinks and peaches are ‘ in ’ this season . |
| 23 | I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside . |
| 24 | Yeah , yeah , well he 's I interviewed him er last year and he was telling me that he remembers going up into the loft in 's erm , the whole of the station yard was full of cattle . |
| 25 | But I assume he was telling me that they 'll ask for Harry Maxim and the Committee would rather he did n't go . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 27 | I could not make out whether his conscience was troubling him or whether he did n't realise what he was telling me . |
| 28 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 29 | When I went to Asdas on the first day when he was telling me about erm sales , loads of people erm |
| 30 | He was telling me that er when he was serving Northern Ireland , okay ? |