Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the week went on I got more and more anguished telegrams from home telling me to conclude the deal and come home . |
| 2 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 3 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 4 | It means abandoning the working class to sectarian politics and violence and insulting their intelligence by telling them to join the SDLP . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ It came out looking as though I was telling them to stuff the season of goodwill , not buy the children any presents and put a bullet in the turkey . |
| 6 | He covers himself , see , by telling you to bank the money . |
| 7 | Who delivered the message at Kinghorn gate , a letter to the Queen saying the King could be arriving that evening and telling her to instruct the purveyor to have horses at Inverkeithing , particularly his favourite , the white Tamesin ? |
| 8 | Just as she was bombarded by voices telling her to accept the doctors ' recommendations she discovered that she was pregnant . |
| 9 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 10 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Major , he said , was like a ‘ runaway train rushing headlong down the track ’ when the whole country was telling him to stop the Government 's ‘ privatisation madness ’ . |
| 12 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 13 | My mother was always telling him to measure the right amount with the cap of the bottle , but it was n't his style . |
| 14 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 15 | Roman signed the register the man handed him and , telling him to send the luggage up , took Claudia 's arm , and they were out in the street before she could speak . |
| 16 | Only days before the verdict was announced the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black Baptist minister , warned the white community that unless both Fama and Mondello were convicted of murder " you are lighting a match to the end of a powder keg and telling us to burn the town down " . |
| 17 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |