Example sentences of "been telling [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 2 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
| 3 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 4 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 5 | he erm , he 's given Stuart our phone number and Stuart 's been shouting this , this is Geoff 's phone number I mean he 's , he 's been telling every body our phone number , I says yeah you just let somebody ring us up and I 'll bloody well be round their house like a shot if they phone , they |
| 6 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 7 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 8 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling whose father Michael has long occupied a safe seat at Westminster has been telling the Diary the poignant story of the lowest point of his life . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 10 | Sarah had been too ill to defend herself , and besides , in a way Elizabeth Bradford had been telling the truth . |
| 11 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 12 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 13 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 14 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 15 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 17 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 18 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |
| 19 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 20 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |