Example sentences of "were tell [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 6 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 7 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 8 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |