Example sentences of "[be] tell [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 're tell him off ! |
| 2 | If you , if you 're telling him not to look at it , they say look the other way it 's nothing to do with you . |
| 3 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're telling me not to interfere , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | No you do it when you 're telling me off . |
| 6 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 7 | But it does sound from what you 're telling us now that it is actually directly related and to recall my original question , was it related to programme to which I had the answer no , erm what you said . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 9 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 10 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 11 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 12 | I 'm told it usually costs about as much as the building costs . |
| 13 | Though I 'm telling her now , I suppose … |
| 14 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 15 | Yeah but I 'm telling you where you got ta |
| 16 | Ah well we , we actually made our own condition and this is one time , I 'm telling you again , where my union membership came in very handy . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm telling you now . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But , ’ you protest , ‘ I 'm telling you now . ’ |
| 19 | If there was some old people here now they 'd they 'd confirm all that I 'm telling you now . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know what 's going on in your head , but I 'm telling you now , if you have any ideas in that direction , you 're on a loser . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm telling you now , I have n't ! |
| 22 | I 'm telling you now ! |
| 23 | I 'm telling you now , come here to go upstairs now and get into your bed now ! |
| 24 | I 'm telling you now ! |
| 25 | No but Cassie now I 'm telling you now |
| 26 | I know it 's a stupid phrase but you learn by your mistakes and I 'm telling you too it 's bloody true . |
| 27 | Captain Goldsborough , wrapped in his thick , black fur , and with a little time to while away until the road should be clear of wedding-carriages , appeared to be telling her so . |
| 28 | ‘ Aye , maybe you 'll be telling me too , then ! ’ |
| 29 | Surely the Conservative Government have already set out proposals for such a programme : they should be telling him where the money would come from . |
| 30 | ‘ Actually , I should n't be telling you yet , but as your wife came to the station saying how worried you were I thought I 'd call in and tell you . |