Example sentences of "she [was/were] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in January the , she were telling me they delivered hundred and fifty nine new cars . |
| 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 | And I could see that this she were telling me . |
| 4 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 5 | She was telling them what they had watched on the breakfast news . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He must have been a stranger to the village , that was why she was telling him . |
| 8 | She resolved on this but three hours later , having eaten Tom 's Indian takeaway and drunk half Tom 's wine , she was telling him her whole history . |
| 9 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 10 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 11 | So she was telling him . |
| 12 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 13 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 14 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
| 15 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 16 | But the old bat was always hanging around — and then the next thing I knew she was telling me you 'd signed the lease . |
| 17 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 18 | When she said , I do n't know , I think she was telling me the truth , she did n't know . |
| 19 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 20 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 21 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 22 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 23 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 24 | Conference , she was telling me . |
| 25 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 26 | She was telling me all about all of them and on the roof . |
| 27 | They went into the er Molly , she was telling me erm she with a bloke , I ca n't remember the they think he 's got ta go to Paris first and then , or France , there 's a show in France somewhere , I think it 's Paris , I do n't know and then he 's going over there , they 've had some more enquiries or something . |
| 28 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 29 | Yeah , I know she was telling me , there she is a highly qualified |
| 30 | She was telling me a bit about it . |