Example sentences of "be tell [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , next week , will be telling us about another one of these very controversial books , wo n't you ? |
| 2 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 3 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 4 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 5 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 6 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 7 | I am telling you about this … to remind you that one can try to give an impression of anguish without aiming straight at the historic Garden of Gethsemane |
| 8 | This is to tell you about those raw eggs on Kaarna and in the box from Pike . |
| 9 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 10 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 11 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 13 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 14 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 15 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 16 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 17 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 18 | I erm oh I was telling you about those till shorts ! |
| 19 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 20 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |