Example sentences of "telling her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 2 | ‘ I could hear the assistant quickly telling her about the person she was being introduced to . |
| 3 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 4 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 5 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 6 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 7 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 8 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |