Example sentences of "[noun prp] telling [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing she remembered was the sun perched on the shed window ledge like a big golden ball , and Edward telling her it was bedtime . |
| 2 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me her husband 's first name in the series , will take the prizes . |
| 3 | We have five £75 copies to give away and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me on which American TV show Wayne 's World had its beginnings . |
| 4 | Maybe when I go back tonight Sonja can write to Marie telling her that . |
| 5 | I have been left an agitated message from my niece Marie-Christine telling me that you are camping at Les Hiboux , without chairs or even the bare necessities of life . ’ |
| 6 | I remember Dennis telling me now . |
| 7 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 8 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 9 | But here was Mick telling him something , he was talking about a young girl , not a little girl , a young girl who was going to be a secretary . |
| 10 | I remember Ivy telling me that she and Margaret were ill for a fortnight when something of the sort threatened them — and I doubt if they were also blasted in the affections … . |
| 11 | When he wrote home to Jane telling her how wonderful was his new independent life style , she followed . |
| 12 | What was important to her was sitting here , like this , with Simon telling her about his personal life . |
| 13 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 14 | One Scottish player who played under Bremner when he managed Leeds , said , ‘ Being bollocked by Billy is a bit hard to take , it 's like Dean Martin telling you stop drinking . ’ |
| 15 | Pete Garrett , 54 , wrote to the DSS telling them he was going to stay with a friend in the city — the fifth largest in Britain . |
| 16 | What was Matilda telling her ? |
| 17 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 18 | How she worked this out was a mystery to Henry , since her mother 's role in Elinor 's life was confined to twice-yearly visits in which she sat in their front room and listened to Elinor telling her how awful Henry was . |
| 19 | And this is a police force , you will remember , Mr telling you very remarkable characteristic . |
| 20 | Mrs telling me , she really needs this does n't she ? |
| 21 | There was Mrs Richards telling me I ought to take vitamins . |
| 22 | He overheard Geoffrey telling her she was lucky and her reply that luck did n't come into it . |
| 23 | That 's probably Gillian telling me |
| 24 | But I remember Philip telling me of a man he admired a great deal , and ‘ t was Guy fitzAlan of Ashby Chase . |
| 25 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 26 | The way we vote is being influenced by editorial interpretations of what John Major said to Norma over breakfast ; by magazine articles telling us what the Kinnocks enjoy for breakfast ; and by TV coverage ( live , no doubt ) of Paddy Ashdown telling us why he chooses toast and Marmite every time . |
| 27 | The others were spread out in a line behind and to either side of Rostov , and now he heard Arghatun telling them to bow . |
| 28 | Seeing a smiling Mrs W of Grimsby telling us ‘ my beautiful Brand X kitchen was fitted in a day and is a dream come true ’ can be very persuasive . |
| 29 | That same spring I received a letter from my aunt in Mavhinje telling me that the village had been burned to the ground . |
| 30 | I remember Chung telling me of the performance she had given with Tennstedt some years ago , a special experience for her , and this subsequent occasion resulted in a collaboration comparably searching and intense . |