Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a note from Lisabeth Sellotaped to my door telling me that Frank had phoned and that Salome was ‘ comfortable ’ which was heaps better than ‘ stable ’ , and he 'd talked about her being moved to town . |
| 2 | You 're telling me that blokes we arrested , blokes we stood in court and saw sentenced , blokes we saw driven away in fucking armoured vans , have committed the exact same crimes that they were put away for ? |
| 3 | ‘ You 're the one who 's always telling me that things will pass , and to make the best of them . |
| 4 | ‘ Rose , are you telling me that Isabel had hair this colour ? |
| 5 | Q : Are you telling me that Darcy 's Utopia will be a secular society ? |
| 6 | He was telling me that pinks and peaches are ‘ in ’ this season . |
| 7 | And you ca n't be telling me that Harry went near running water if he could help it . |
| 8 | I took the lift up to Reception and Purvis delighted in telling me that Patterson was still at lunch . |
| 9 | Are you telling me that Leo — Matt , ’ she corrected herself impatiently , ‘ came over here because these people in Port Headland asked him to ? ’ |
| 10 | Are you telling me that Luke and Harry Martin are in business together ? ’ |
| 11 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 12 | That feeling was mutual , … it was Baroness Thatcher who addressed the congregation at the service today , telling them that Lord Ridley had ’ style , elegance originality and special courage . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 14 | However , the nuns said the ministry changed its account after initially telling them that Salmonella enteriditis was responsible . |
| 15 | • Do not be misled by anyone telling you that Swan Mussels will filter your pond . |
| 16 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 17 | Zbo did his best to placate her , telling her that Modigliani often behaved oddly ; in the end he went out to telephone the hospitals and the police stations . |
| 18 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 19 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 20 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 21 | Perhaps somewhere in the back of Edward Crumwallis 's brain there ran a murmur telling him that Dr Frome had every right to be . |
| 22 | He looked at his slim gold wrist-watch and Claudia shook her head at Myra 's obvious intention of telling him that Dana did exist . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 24 | Needing a moment 's breathing-space , she took a side-step or two away , and had a brief inner tussle where she came close to telling him that Travis was not her boyfriend , and had never been her boyfriend . |
| 25 | She went over to Shelley and gave him a book , telling him that Claire Claremont was sitting by little William — ‘ Willmouse ’ , she called him — and writing letters home . |
| 26 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 27 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 28 | It is clear that many Opposition Members , and possibly some Conservative Members , have received letters telling us that claims could not be paid because a bill board had been placed in the social security office . |
| 29 | British Rail have n't had anything at all to report to us , and the local bus company 's just been telling us that things are running fine . |
| 30 | It was interrupted by the captain 's voice telling us that thanks to the strong following winds we would be arriving in London three quarters of an hour before schedule . |