Example sentences of "telling i how [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 2 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 3 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 4 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 5 | If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room . |
| 6 | Well , after them telling me how good Gary Kelly was , they said they had a Leeds youth team member in their squad . |
| 7 | ‘ You were telling me how important you and Dad had become . |
| 8 | I remember someone — the school cleaner , I think — telling me how dreadful this omission was , and how I recognised the mixture of shock and pity in her voice without being able to separate the two , or understand to whom they were being allocated and why . |
| 9 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 10 | ‘ You keep telling me how grown-up you are , Caroline . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how old you are , Miss Thorne ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |