Example sentences of "[was/were] tell she [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
2 | Presumably Billykins was telling her about Donald the Gourmet Cook , Donald the Great Fighter for Social Change , Donald the Novelist . |
3 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
4 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
5 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
6 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
7 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
8 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
9 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
10 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
11 | I was telling her about |
12 | One was telling her to ‘ cheer-up , cheer-up ! |