Example sentences of "was tell [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 2 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 7 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 10 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 11 | 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 ! ! ! |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 14 | I was telling you the truth . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |