Example sentences of "[be] telling [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 2 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 3 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 4 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 5 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 6 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 7 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 8 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 9 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 10 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 11 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 12 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 13 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 14 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 15 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 16 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 17 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 18 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 21 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 22 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 23 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 24 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 25 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 26 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |