Example sentences of "[prep] telling i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After telling me her story with all those rumblings of resentment and flashes of only half-buried hatred , Nancy 's blue eyes suddenly lit up , her pinched face broke into a smile , she sat up and cried , ‘ It 's me sister ! ’ |
| 2 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |
| 3 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 4 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 5 | I thought this might be his way of telling me . ’ |
| 6 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 7 | What 's the point of telling me what I should have done ? |
| 8 | It 's her way of telling me , and saying ‘ What are you going to do about it ? ’ |
| 9 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 10 | If it is a cocaine run to the toilet , and I 'll bet it is , then he would n't dream of telling me about it . |
| 11 | ‘ I think my subconscious found a way of telling me a bit of what happened , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 12 | I mean is this your is this your polite way of telling me that I need a bath . |
| 13 | What 's wrong with telling me ? |
| 14 | You wo n't frighten me with telling me |
| 15 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 16 | He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general . |
| 17 | There is no use in telling me I shall soon be running up mountains . |
| 18 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 19 | I was at the Turku office and there was some delay in telling me … |
| 20 | She then told me what she said she had already told the police and that there was no harm in telling me , to wit that Froggy had given her nearly two thousand quid to do up the kitchen and bathroom . ’ |
| 21 | I can only recall one occasion when he expressed a quiet boast ; he took delight in telling me that he did not have one paper qualification to his name . |
| 22 | " There 's no harm in telling me . " |
| 23 | I took the lift up to Reception and Purvis delighted in telling me that Patterson was still at lunch . |
| 24 | That voice I 've missed wasting no time in telling me its owner had dined with my secretary the previous evening . ’ |
| 25 | She waited until she heard the sister leave before telling me . |
| 26 | I remembered other things , too , things she 'd insisted upon telling me later — all sorts of unlovely details . |
| 27 | My mother would never have left me without telling me when she would be back . |
| 28 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 29 | I was working in Australia , and he flew out with his last penny , and without telling me he was coming , to pop the question . |
| 30 | Who had been drinking rum without telling me ? |