Example sentences of "[be] [adv] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you continue to smack a two-year-old you are likely to make him more physical , you are effectively telling him that smacking ( ie , hitting people ) is OK . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do not say it will happen , I am just telling you . ’ |
| 3 | I am sure you already now that the WISE activities are important but I am just telling you all this in confirmation of your instincts … ’ |
| 4 | Livingston 's latest results are already telling us something new ; he has found that the Sun 's temperature ( and thus brightness ) reached a minimum in the summer of 1981 , but has been gradually increasing since then . |
| 5 | Erm you know the difficult thing for me is when I 'm working with people who 've actually been given no notice at all , and that 's happening with lots of organizations where on Friday you 're suddenly told you 've got no job , but your pension 's available . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You , ’ he answered , ‘ because you 're always telling me what to do . ’ |
| 8 | You 're always telling me that I should have got a job on the railways . |
| 9 | You 're always telling me what I should be — or do — or say . |
| 10 | ‘ At school they 're always telling us to ask why . |
| 11 | They 're always telling us that it 's a paradise for women , ’ said Lord Burdon . |
| 12 | ‘ But Melanie , sweetums — ’ the little-girl-lost voice again — ‘ you 're always telling us never to talk to strange men . ’ |
| 13 | We 're always told we are what we eat , and Springs provides delicious healthy cuisine with that in mind . |
| 14 | Through lively , lashing , conscientiously structured songs like ‘ Cartoon World ’ , ‘ Boy Girl ’ , ‘ Out Of Control ’ , ‘ Trevor ’ , ‘ Twilight ’ , ‘ The Dream Is Over ’ , ‘ Another Day ’ , ‘ Shadows in Tall Trees ’ , potently splicing the wiggly world and the real world , U2 desperately point out the absurdity and danger of the happiness we 're continually told we enjoy/envy/suffer/ca n't do without . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're never telling me it 's because I 'm a Tim ? ’ he said . |
| 16 | As I say the main idea is that when we get the answers to these er you you know regardless of what you 're actually telling me you know whether you them right or not . |
| 17 | Right , so when you 're actually telling him , what do you say ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ‘ Friends are always telling me to put my prices up , but I enjoy painting people , like bishops , who could n't necessarily afford very much more , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ People are always telling me I am brave to ‘ expose ’ myself in the way I do . |
| 21 | You are always telling me tales of him rebuking you . |
| 22 | As newspapers and television are always telling us , divorce is more common than it was a generation ago . |
| 23 | That is what they are always telling us and that is what they have got . |
| 24 | It 's true , Blue Peter are always telling you there 's a new issue coming out . |
| 25 | I am always told they you should have a trim every 4–6 weeks to get rid of all the split ends but it seems difficult to grow my hair when it 's constantly being cut . |
| 26 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
| 27 | They believe the Western world is always interfering with their natural resources and they are now telling us how to manage ours " . |
| 28 | I used to be constantly telling them to shut up |
| 29 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 30 | I 'm only telling you this because … well , it 's obvious who killed Mills . |