Example sentences of "[was/were] tell [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I says , I , I were telling him though , I 'm going ten o'clock my car needs done ! |
| 2 | Colin were telling me today . |
| 3 | ‘ You were telling me how important you and Dad had become . |
| 4 | All that stuff you were telling me yesterday . |
| 5 | We were telling you earlier that Blackburn were one up over Shrewsbury Town , Mike the goal scorer after six , well has equalized immediately for Shrewsbury after twenty , Shrewsbury Town one , Blackburn Rovers one . |
| 6 | Oh yes they were they were telling us not to pack up there that keep the g gate going and you know they were , keep it going and they they 'd er help us . |
| 7 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 8 | Here we were 33 Black workers , called together by two white men , who were to tell us how to go about discussing the issues of racism and ethno-centricism . |
| 9 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It was told me before . ’ |
| 11 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 12 | The only thing she could do was tell him so and leave for home as soon as possible . |
| 13 | His psyche was telling him not to put something wet and warm in something else for her . |
| 14 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 15 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 16 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |
| 17 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 18 | But Rufus tells them they should n't get within six feet of their prisoners , and they both hang their heads sideways like he was telling them how to open a can of beer . |
| 19 | R. J. left her with a few of his abstruse sayings , which she believed meant he was telling her not to worry too much ; it was difficult to tell . |
| 20 | Maureen was telling me today that erm he erm too , she took it to the garage and there was two bills laying on the table , one were for two hundred and sixty odd and were four hundred and seventy some odd |
| 21 | I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside . |
| 22 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 23 | Dad , do n't worry if Mum was telling me off will you over will you ? |
| 24 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 25 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 26 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 27 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 28 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 29 | Yeah Dot was telling me how erm they had somebody with th erm similar problem but more pronounced |
| 30 | ‘ Remember I was telling you how nervous I was ? ’ |