Example sentences of "telling [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you offer me no explanation of such clear symptoms , or are you ignoring these , are you telling me that such suffering is a figment of my imagination ? ’ |
| 3 | Chaplin was telling me that such people don ’ t qualify for medals or monuments , unlike those who fight and kill or wound , or are killed or wounded . |
| 4 | are you telling me that these people are renting this place out ? |
| 5 | He and Zak went away together , and Donna drifted around from table to table for a while telling everyone that poor Angelica had really been very sweet , not a murderess , and she , Donna , was dreadfully upset at the suggestion . |
| 6 | When it comes to Opposition claims about NHS trusts , should not we bear in mind that , two years ago , the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) was telling everyone that general practitioner contracts would result in less time being spent with patients ? |
| 7 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall be here , ’ Joan said quietly — telling herself that wild horses , let alone Richard of Gloucester , would not keep her from Edward . |
| 9 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 10 | His hair was almost black , heavy and smoothly groomed , swept back from a face that was icily cold , only the long , humorous-looking mouth telling her that this hostility was solely for her benefit and not some natural mannerism . |
| 11 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 12 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 13 | ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . ) |
| 14 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |