Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to tell me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 2 | He said , ‘ But you were going to tell me about the business . ’ |
| 3 | Right , you were going to tell me about Jean now . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were going to tell me at least that it was for my own good . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 7 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 9 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 10 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 12 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 13 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |