Example sentences of "telling them [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're constantly telling them not to do this and not to do that , ’ she opined , curiously , at this most un-authoritarian time in our history . |
| 2 | They have ignored signs telling them not to swim in the lake in the hot weather . |
| 3 | As they passed one of the Mason 's guards , they startled him out of dozing , and he hastily got up , cursing them and telling them not to go out of sight . |
| 4 | and they wonder why the police are telling them not to go in there . |
| 5 | She flew back to Lima and wrote to all her clients telling them not to expect any more craft goods : she was quitting and going to work in the jungle . |
| 6 | In all this , as in everything else in their lives , you can help them best by listening with patience and sympathy , never dismissing their anxieties — however unreasonable they may seem to be — simply by telling them not to worry because you will always see that they are all right . |
| 7 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The Americans are n't going to be impressed by somebody from Sprague 's Committee who was n't within miles of the Abbey telling them Not to worry old boy the Redcoats have muddled through again ca n't recall the details but just take my word for it … |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose he 's written to his firm telling them not to keep his job open for him ? ’ |
| 10 | In March 1991 the OFT invited people in trouble over credit to send for Credit Wise , a sixteen-page guide telling them where to go for help , what to look for and what to avoid . |
| 11 | So it would be highly arrogant of me to start telling them how to do their work . |
| 12 | But Rufus tells them they should n't get within six feet of their prisoners , and they both hang their heads sideways like he was telling them how to open a can of beer . |
| 13 | The Manufacturing , Science and Finance Union has issued guidelines to their 600,000 members telling them how to tackle the problem . |
| 14 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 15 | Be telling them then to grow up in er Westminster . |