Example sentences of "telling they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 2 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 3 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 4 | Mary Read , who had first worked in New York in 1916 with the Sunshine Girls , endeared herself to reporters by telling them of her great love of the city . |
| 5 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 6 | An example of her power : scared as he was , the boy Nikolai had managed to hold out against telling them of her destination until it was too late for them to prevent her from reaching it . |
| 7 | Readers will remember my telling them of British Coal 's current advertising campaign aimed at convincing the power generators to place any future contracts with it . |
| 8 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 9 | ‘ We are talking to our employees telling them of our plans in a very detailed way . ’ |
| 10 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 11 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 12 | ‘ I just ca n't imagine telling them at home . |
| 13 | I was telling them at school . |
| 14 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 15 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 16 | Later , at Reykjavik , I was chatting to somebody , telling them about the Ernir flights . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 19 | He had written telling them about his recent marriage to Rachel in Sydney , but he had n't given any address or any details of the wedding . |
| 20 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 21 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 24 | Besides , I 'm paying for the betrayal by telling them about the body . |
| 25 | It is tempting to push the blame , as some young mothers do , on their own mothers for not telling them about sex and contraception . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 27 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 28 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 29 | The people in the famous circus , for example , that she was always telling them about . |
| 30 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |