Example sentences of "were tell [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 2 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 5 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 8 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 10 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 11 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 12 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 13 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 14 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 15 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 16 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 17 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 18 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 19 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 20 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 23 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 24 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 25 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 26 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 27 | Not this dream you were telling us about , was it ? |
| 28 | 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 . |