Example sentences of "[be] tell [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters whether you 're telling me the truth or not , but I think you probably are . |
| 4 | You have nothing — nothing ! — to fear if you 're telling me the truth . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Are you sure you 're telling me the truth ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm telling you a story , you remember that . |
| 7 | I 'm telling you the truth ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth . |
| 9 | " I 'm telling you the truth . " |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she said gently . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ she persisted . |
| 12 | Ah , I 'm telling you the truth . |
| 13 | And that old man I 'm telling you the God 's truth , I watched him when I was coming school many a time , used to go to Anglesey with a rope in his pocket here . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm telling you the truth , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you have any reason whatsoever to doubt that I 'm telling you the truth — other than the fact that I 'm a singer ? |
| 16 | Dr Greene said you 'll be telling her the result of the sonogram . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’ |
| 18 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |
| 19 | If she met an alien in Wandsworth High Street , she 'd be telling it the way to the supermarket and offering it free babysitting before you could say ‘ flying saucer ’ . |
| 20 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 21 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 22 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 23 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 24 | But , there are ways of checking , yo you can you can , obviously compare words and then perhaps you can er invariably time about the situations and draw your own conclusions as to whether they were telling you a lie earlier on . |
| 25 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 26 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 27 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 28 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 29 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 30 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |