Example sentences of "telling [pron] " in BNC.
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| 61 | So there 's my grandma telling me the difference between a girl and a boy . |
| 62 | The girls were telling me — ’ |
| 63 | ‘ Aye , maybe you 'll be telling me too , then ! ’ |
| 64 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 67 | P. I wanted to get into something where there was no-one telling me what to do all the time . |
| 68 | 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 . |
| 69 | ‘ And Harold , ’ said Charles in a firmer tone , ‘ I very much appreciate your telling me the news so kindly . |
| 70 | ‘ Are you telling me you have n't posted my letter to Richard ? |
| 71 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 72 | I do n't want you coming back and telling me that what we need is more data . |
| 73 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 74 | After telling me her story with all those rumblings of resentment and flashes of only half-buried hatred , Nancy 's blue eyes suddenly lit up , her pinched face broke into a smile , she sat up and cried , ‘ It 's me sister ! ’ |
| 75 | There was Minna emphatically immortalised on canvas in Orchardson 's ‘ Queen of Swords ’ telling me to keep going . |
| 76 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 77 | On the way , I remember Aunt Rachel telling me that a station was Rugby , which meant that we were then right in the centre of England , whilst a bit later on , I was told to look out to see the Welsh mountains . |
| 78 | H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons . |
| 79 | Thanks for telling me . |
| 80 | ‘ I managed to save a few bob and Billy Tolboys , my mate on the docks , was telling me there is a motorbike and sidecar in Bert Midgeley 's garage in Sharpness and he reckons Bert could be persuaded to sell it . |
| 81 | ‘ You 're telling me , ’ Billy continued . |
| 82 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 83 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 84 | ‘ Thanks a bloody bundle for telling me . ’ |
| 85 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 86 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 87 | ‘ You , ’ he answered , ‘ because you 're always telling me what to do . ’ |
| 88 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 89 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |
| 90 | I grabbed a chair in a blind panic but heard Dad call out , telling me to put it down . |