Example sentences of "[pron] [be] telling [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't think why I am telling you all this , ’ she said , embarrassed . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know why I am telling you all this . ’ |
| 3 | I am telling you that last night I wanted you . |
| 4 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 5 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 6 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 7 | I 'm telling him all about it now , Emma said she does n't need it |
| 8 | The reason I 'm telling you all this is that not so long ago the PD scene seemed to be in decline . |
| 9 | I ca n't believe I 'm telling you all this . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm telling you all this , and perhaps you do n't have to erm pay for any of these treatments we do gift vouchers , so if you 've got anybody who wants to buy you a gift of any sort , you could always say well , I fancy erm an eyebrow trim , or I fancy a pedicure perhaps they would like to buy you a gift voucher and then you can come in and it could be a present for you . |
| 11 | I do n't know why I 'm telling you all this . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm telling you that was a great party really great … ’ |
| 13 | Cos without the head man a trainer ca n't train horse , and I 'm telling you that for nothing ! |
| 14 | It 's a woman , I 'm telling you that is a woman . |
| 15 | I 'm telling you this with authority because he 's made me typing monitor in the matter . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But my conscience is the only reason I 'm telling you this , all the same . |
| 18 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 19 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm telling you this in confidence , but you 'd find out about it when you go through the books . |
| 21 | Jean I was telling you all my problems . |
| 22 | Erm why do you think well why do you think I was telling you that ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 25 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |
| 26 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 27 | ‘ But you 're telling me all the suspicions about Mills are unfounded ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I presume , ’ chirped up a voice from the back Coun Eric White , actually ‘ that you 're telling us all this from memory . ’ |
| 29 | " Father , " she interrupted eventually , " why would you be telling me these things when I know them already ? " |
| 30 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |