Example sentences of "[noun] [be] tell [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 2 | Yeah Dot was telling me how erm they had somebody with th erm similar problem but more pronounced |
| 3 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 4 | As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving ! |
| 5 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 6 | His psyche was telling him not to put something wet and warm in something else for her . |
| 7 | Does he agree that one of the most useful ways in which we can give them know-how is to tell them how we managed , in the light of the Maastricht agreement , to reject the principle of monetary union ? |
| 8 | As you have decided to appeal against this decision by making a ‘ reference ’ to an Appeal Committee which will look at your case independently , the purpose of this leaflet is to tell you how to make your reference , the things you will have to do , and the people you should expect to come across . |
| 9 | Maureen was telling me today that erm he erm too , she took it to the garage and there was two bills laying on the table , one were for two hundred and sixty odd and were four hundred and seventy some odd |
| 10 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 11 | Right , so it 's one I want to , I did n't get time to do last week was to tell you where you specify that you want to perform a Chow test , right , and the computer will generate both of both of Chow 's tests with one , the first one is where we 've got enough observations in each sub sample , right , to estimate the regression , right , however , you may , you may detect and figure there is some structural change right at the end of your er sample of observations or alternatively right at the beginning . |
| 12 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 13 | Sipping his first beer of the day , Tim Roth is telling me how , for a few hours , he was rich . |
| 14 | Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ? |
| 15 | Well Bob was telling us yesterday cos David told |
| 16 | Colin were telling me today . |
| 17 | and they wonder why the police are telling them not to go in there . |
| 18 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 19 | ‘ I bet yer that Polly 's told 'er ter goo , ’ said another . |
| 20 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 21 | Dad , do n't worry if Mum was telling me off will you over will you ? |
| 22 | She needs a bike to support her , she 's , she has n't got any mobility , she ca n't control her arms , her limbs , although she 's there , you speak to her and she knows you 're there , and if you 're listening Joanne , hello , we know you 're there because your mum was telling us today . |
| 23 | But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today . |
| 24 | Dandelion was telling it well and even Pipkin forgot his weariness and danger , and remembered instead the great indestructibility of the Rabbits . |