Example sentences of "telling [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 2 | I remember you telling me about that , Cully . |
| 3 | Yeah and I do n't want to hear about , telling me about that bloody shop . |
| 4 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 5 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 6 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 7 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 8 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 9 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 10 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 12 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 13 | I remember Emma telling you about that . |
| 14 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 15 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 16 | I erm oh I was telling you about those till shorts ! |
| 17 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 18 | I am telling you about this … to remind you that one can try to give an impression of anguish without aiming straight at the historic Garden of Gethsemane |
| 19 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 20 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it was you telling him about all those posh cars you test drive that really swung it . ’ |
| 22 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 23 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 24 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 25 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 26 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 27 | What is all this telling us about real evolution ? |
| 28 | This was an original he was very proud of this and he kept telling us about this . |
| 29 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
| 30 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |