Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 2 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 7 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 8 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 9 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 10 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 12 | Because Zeno was edgy , Carla was telling him a story . |
| 13 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 14 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 15 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 16 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 17 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 18 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 19 | She was telling me a bit about it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 21 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 22 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 23 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 24 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 25 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 26 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 27 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 28 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 29 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |