Example sentences of "[is] telling i " in BNC.
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1 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
2 | Sipping his first beer of the day , Tim Roth is telling me how , for a few hours , he was rich . |
3 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
4 | ‘ I do not go around public houses asking if my wife is telling me the truth . |
5 | ‘ He is telling me that we are here , ’ said Giles to himself . |
6 | I have a servant who helps me but always I wonder if she is telling me the truth or merely being kind . ’ |
7 | One half is telling me to get out of bed whilst the stronger half is telling me to go back to sleep as it does n't matter if I 'm late for school . |
8 | One half is telling me to get out of bed whilst the stronger half is telling me to go back to sleep as it does n't matter if I 'm late for school . |
9 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
10 | Can I take up this point about the forty three forty three , the chairman is telling me thirty four . |
11 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
12 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
13 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
14 | James is telling me a secret |
15 | Telling me what they do is , telling me what they do , is telling me what they are . |
16 | It 's sorry , I 'm going to have to do some mathematics because what my friend is telling me it it curious it 's it 's the thirty four per hectare . |
17 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
18 | It 's telling me to go away . ’ |
19 | I think hi 's telling me you have to suffer for your art . |
20 | Mr Timothy 's telling me about a gypsy girl he and Andrew Manners met today . |
21 | Then suddenly Dick 's telling me I 've passed it . ’ |
22 | Scott thought , He 's telling me that she 's hysterical . |
23 | One moment she 's kissing me , and the next she 's telling me she ca n't see me till next week . |
24 | urgh that does n't sound very nice to me , I like strawberry cheese cake though he 's telling me something about strawberry and cheese |
25 | She 's telling me these little bits to write down . |
26 | 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 |
27 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
28 | It 's telling me there 's |
29 | I say Mum calls me Anthony when she 's telling me off . |
30 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |