Example sentences of "telling [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 2 | He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general . |
| 3 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 5 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 6 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 7 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 8 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 10 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 11 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 12 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 13 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |
| 14 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 15 | I remember Chung telling me of the performance she had given with Tennstedt some years ago , a special experience for her , and this subsequent occasion resulted in a collaboration comparably searching and intense . |
| 16 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 17 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 18 | I remember Robert Hewitt who was racing secretary telling me before the meeting . |
| 19 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 20 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 21 | Later , at Reykjavik , I was chatting to somebody , telling them about the Ernir flights . |
| 22 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 23 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 24 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 25 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 26 | Besides , I 'm paying for the betrayal by telling them about the body . |
| 27 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |
| 28 | Inside , members of staff were dressed in colourful beach wear , asking customers about their holiday plans and telling them about the Bank 's range of travel products . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |