Example sentences of "telling [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 3 | ‘ Why are you telling me this ? |
| 4 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 5 | Why was she telling me this ? |
| 6 | ‘ Pinkie , are you telling me this fellow 's a bloody intellectual ? |
| 7 | Next you 'll be telling me this Rosie girl 's a virgin ! ’ |
| 8 | Dorothy was telling me this morning you know when we were at erm nursery ? |
| 9 | You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock |
| 10 | You know what the girl was telling me this morning ? |
| 11 | And why are we telling them this if it 's not eligible for consideration as a possible way of depriving us of an cash ? |
| 12 | You have to wonder if they are telling them this is how to do it . ’ |
| 13 | You got environmentalists telling you this land should be left to nature , too poor for sodbusting [ ploughing ] . |
| 14 | 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 ? ) |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But my conscience is the only reason I 'm telling you this , all the same . |
| 19 | I 'm only telling you this because … well , it 's obvious who killed Mills . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 22 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 23 | Why am I telling you this ? |
| 24 | I 'm telling you this in confidence , but you 'd find out about it when you go through the books . |
| 25 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 26 | ‘ I — I ought not to be telling you this , but Lady Lavinia told me she would … leave me something . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 28 | She would n't appreciate me telling you this , but she loved you . |
| 29 | you see it 's got no , they 're telling you this and telling you that , it 's them that 's doing this but they 're creating more food , food by , to create more food they 're bombarding all your food with chemicals you know all sorts you know |
| 30 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |