Example sentences of "was tell [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 3 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 4 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 5 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |