Example sentences of "[vb past] telling i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father O'Malley never stopped telling me that she was a saint if ever he 'd seen one . |
| 2 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't realise it was Lori you were protecting , which only goes to show how mixed up you 'd got me , until the note arrived telling me you had the jade . |
| 4 | The monster finished telling me his story , and then he said : |
| 5 | Soon she began telling me of a tasteless fellow-passenger of hers who , at this time the day before , had kept his nose buried in Doctor Zhivago while they flew in exquisite weather over the Gulf of Corinth . |
| 6 | But then decided to ignore my actions , started telling me about himself , his latest article , latest book , latest catalogue introduction , latest love . |
| 7 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 8 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 9 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 10 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 11 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |
| 12 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
| 13 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 14 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 15 | Dad started telling me , Vic Reeves on now I notice . |
| 16 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 17 | My mum kept telling me she thought I was spending too much , but I 'd always tell lies about the price of things . |
| 18 | Jeffrey kept telling me he was only seeking custody because he wanted me back in the States . |
| 19 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 20 | As he has written , ‘ I steeled myself to drive that fast lap in 1975 although my brain kept telling me it was sheer stupidity . |
| 21 | " He kept telling me I could n't get pregnant the first time , but I did . " |
| 22 | ‘ When my father died , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ his best friend was a philosopher , the sort that was in fashion then , and he kept telling me there was no after-life . |
| 23 | At school the masters kept telling me to wipe it off my face . |
| 24 | Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him . |
| 25 | Although I have to confess I wondered why he kept telling me about you . |
| 26 | Thankfully one of the other people in the flat was from keighley and a fellow whites fan ( had trials with them he kept telling me , and scored against Lukic — a fact he celebrated by naming his cat after the illustrious man ) so they press cuttings did n't last too long . |
| 27 | Hayley could , she kept telling me . |
| 28 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |
| 29 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |