Example sentences of "[be] tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 2 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 3 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 4 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 5 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 6 | The other thing I was slightly concerned about it , if it 's a slight digression is the fact that the people at the Lyceum at the Assembly Hall last Saturday did n't know , had n't been told anything about the equipment |
| 7 | But the families say they have still not been told anything by the health authority . |
| 8 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 9 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 10 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 14 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 15 | 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 — " |
| 16 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 17 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 20 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 21 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 22 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 25 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 26 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 27 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 29 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 30 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |