Example sentences of "telling [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airport authorities nearby had heard nothing , or were telling nothing . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 4 | But then decided to ignore my actions , started telling me about himself , his latest article , latest book , latest catalogue introduction , latest love . |
| 5 | And fancy telling me that there was an interesting stoup in that old church on the island . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Are you telling me , ’ said Henry cautiously , ‘ that Mrs Iverson — er — consumed … . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 8 | Harriet , she begins to talk , feeling the wine in her head , and talking faster , you are telling me how you bought this pretty scenery for Mummy 's sake , partly . |
| 9 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 10 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
| 11 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 12 | Chaplin was telling me that such people don ’ t qualify for medals or monuments , unlike those who fight and kill or wound , or are killed or wounded . |
| 13 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 14 | Bernie laid right into me , telling me I was stupid for losing them . |
| 15 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 16 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 17 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 18 | People keep telling me hundreds and thousands of them do n't want to work , but I never meet any of them . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you mind telling me what wages you paid him ? ’ |
| 20 | And Mum 's always telling me off for doing things wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ Stop telling me reasons why it ca n't be done , ’ the Prince thundered , ‘ and get on and find a way . ’ |
| 22 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 23 | My mum kept telling me she thought I was spending too much , but I 'd always tell lies about the price of things . |
| 24 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 25 | All based on a perfect understanding between the wickets — and him not telling me what to do and me not telling him . |
| 26 | ‘ My supporters in Birkenhead have been telling me I should not be in a mood to compromise , ’ he said . |
| 27 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 28 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 29 | ‘ The Warden was just telling me all the details when this policeman come over , wanted to talk to 'im . |
| 30 | You 're not telling me you never lie , are you ? — And I only nick crisps — stuff like that . |