Example sentences of "[was/were] telling [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 3 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 4 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 5 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 8 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
| 9 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 10 | Churchill was telling everyone of the dangers in Europe but no one would listen . |
| 11 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 12 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 13 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 14 | I was telling you about the Queen Mary . |
| 15 | Er well Mark remember I was telling you about the boss that the two there the other night they give er a , a wage rise |
| 16 | A senior man in the Ministry of Defence was telling us of the ‘ battle for hearts and minds ’ which his department is conducting among the people of the border villages . |
| 17 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 18 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 19 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |