Example sentences of "[been] telling the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 2 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 3 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 4 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 6 | Sarah had been too ill to defend herself , and besides , in a way Elizabeth Bradford had been telling the truth . |
| 7 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 8 | He 's been telling the girls that their costumes for the video will be added by using computer graphics . |
| 9 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 10 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 11 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 12 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 13 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 14 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 15 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 17 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 18 | Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job . |
| 19 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling whose father Michael has long occupied a safe seat at Westminster has been telling the Diary the poignant story of the lowest point of his life . |
| 20 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |