Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not going to be telling us very much . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not going to be told that we 're just things like rats and mice . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Members of the public are not going to be told that some of the monkeys they see climbing on their cars today could be in a lab tomorrow . |
| 4 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 5 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 6 | When are we going to be told some good news for a change ? ’ |
| 7 | He was going to be told his beloved had a baby by another man and that man was probably going to threaten to ruin him . |
| 8 | that car 's going to be told off . |
| 9 | Then she raised her eyes to his cross , slightly plump face , its high Ukrainian cheekbones and sallow skin , now flushed with anger , and finally at the intelligent , black eyes , almost pleading to be told that he was a man . |
| 10 | Instead , she clutched tightly to the handle of the suitcase Mrs Hollidaye had lent her and followed the nurse along broad passages to a bright room where a group of children , all with suitcases and well wrapped in outdoor clothing , stood huddled like refugees from a foreign land waiting to be told where to go next . |
| 11 | Er have you got , all these people waiting to be told . |
| 12 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 13 | Her mother had never pried into Cassie 's affairs , waiting to be told what her daughter wished her to know and was ready to tell . |
| 14 | not requiring to be told |
| 15 | I rode Drifter back with the rest of the string and went into breakfast , half expecting to be told I would n't be allowed to ride Fringe . |
| 16 | ‘ That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price . |
| 17 | when you know more about what you 're expecting to be told it 's easier to remember it . |
| 18 | If B replies no he is inviting A to tell him , while a response of no could be taken to mean that he does not know and is not expecting to be told . |
| 19 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 20 | ‘ Nothing much , really just asking to be told if they found her . ’ |
| 21 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 22 | Without having to be told , she knew at once two or , rather , three things : the Second Front had begun , John was in the vanguard of operations and that she would never see him again . |
| 23 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 24 | He understood things without having to be told . |
| 25 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 26 | He wished she could understand that without having to be told . |
| 27 | ‘ Now sor , I 'm goin' to be tellin' yer sometin' . |
| 28 | But would n't a man of any sensitivity have attempted to check with her , would n't he have assumed that , without needing to be told ? |
| 29 | Without needing to be told , I knew I had reached Frankenstein 's secret laboratory ! |
| 30 | That in its turn means people feel empowered to take initiatives themselves without needing to be told what to do . |