Example sentences of "[was/were] telling [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the doctors were telling her the truth . ’ |
| 2 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 3 | But , there are ways of checking , yo you can you can , obviously compare words and then perhaps you can er invariably time about the situations and draw your own conclusions as to whether they were telling you a lie earlier on . |
| 4 | Because Zeno was edgy , Carla was telling him a story . |
| 5 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 6 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 7 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 8 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 9 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 10 | She was telling me a bit about it . |
| 11 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 12 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 13 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 14 | I was telling you the truth . |