Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 2 | I mean is this your is this your polite way of telling me that I need a bath . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're telling me that you spent every penny of your personal money to come over here and clear your late grandmother 's name ? ’ |
| 4 | So what was stopping him from going to her and telling her that she had no need to worry ? |
| 5 | He then incurred the wrath of his senior officers by writing a rude letter to the Governor , telling him that he had no right to interfere in a dispute between gentlemen . |
| 6 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 7 | ‘ Suddenly everyone is telling us that we doctor the ball . |
| 8 | Pilot has been contacted by R.W. Ferris , Head of Aircraft Registration at the CAA , telling us that they have a considerable number of aircraft on file where the owner 's correct current address is not known . |
| 9 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 10 | Now you 're you 're telling us that you left the pit and you bought a lorry so could |