Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 're telling me other countries . |
| 2 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Chico 's been telling me all kinds of interesting stuff . ’ |
| 4 | She heard Guido say , ‘ I remember Filippo telling me that story . |
| 5 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 6 | You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock |
| 7 | Next you 'll be telling me this Rosie girl 's a virgin ! ’ |
| 8 | Dorothy was telling me this morning you know when we were at erm nursery ? |
| 9 | You know what the girl was telling me this morning ? |
| 10 | ‘ Pinkie , are you telling me this fellow 's a bloody intellectual ? |
| 11 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 12 | " Father , " she interrupted eventually , " why would you be telling me these things when I know them already ? " |
| 13 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 14 | Yes Julie was telling me last night . |
| 15 | Alex Ferry , confederation general secretary , said workers were saying managers were telling them compulsory redundancies were essential and warning of a ‘ last in , first out ’ selection procedure . |
| 16 | I was sort of telling you that bit . |
| 17 | Yeah they , they 're telling you one part of the story |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 19 | You got environmentalists telling you this land should be left to nature , too poor for sodbusting [ ploughing ] . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm only telling you these things because I like you , Claudia . |
| 21 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 22 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 23 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 24 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 25 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |
| 26 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |
| 27 | ‘ I ne'er liked telling it that way , like a fairy tale ; but he 's allus been that strong-willed … ’ |
| 28 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 29 | But it , you ca n't then put that information together with other information because they 're actually telling us different things , if you see what I mean ? |
| 30 | Erm I think , I think they 're all telling us different things and they 're gon na be int yeah |