Example sentences of "[be] tell [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 2 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 3 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 4 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 5 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 6 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 7 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 8 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 9 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 10 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 11 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |