Example sentences of "been tell [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 2 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 3 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 4 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 5 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
| 6 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 7 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 8 | Oh we 've been telling her how pretty she is with her hair cut . |
| 9 | Stephen has been telling us how much you have helped him . ’ |
| 10 | Iain had been telling us how ten to fifteen thousand years ago early man had crossed from Mongolia to Alaska by way of the Aleutian chain of volcanic islands and then , over a period of some five millennia , had worked his way down through North and South America until finally he had reached Tierra del Fuego , living out the winters virtually naked except for the natural hair of his body . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't be a spoilsport , Sidney ; Ernie 's been telling us how he shook hands with the undertaker . ’ |
| 12 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been telling you all along . |
| 14 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |