Example sentences of "telling i the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
2 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
3 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
4 | She was telling me the other day . |
5 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
6 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
7 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
8 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
9 | Are you telling me the old bat did n't pass it on ? ’ |
10 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |