Example sentences of "[prep] telling [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must tell them on the phone after telling them the price and what it 's all about you say , Right when I come round tomorr er whenever to er strike up the deal with you I want the contract signed I need a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment as a deposit cheque . |
| 2 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 3 | ( Falling over is God 's way of telling you the bar 's about to shut in my book . ) |
| 4 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 6 | No harm in telling you the story , I guess . |
| 7 | Notice , though , that while flow figures are useful in telling us the directions in which companies channel the funds they received , they do not tell us how active intermediaries are in any particular market . |
| 8 | ‘ So , he waited till you were here before telling you the whole story . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll think of some way to ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick what to do , without telling them the crazy part . |
| 10 | Suppose somebody read to you , without telling you the author , but telling you the date — the early seventeenth century lines like this ‘ But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale and love the high embowered rough with antique pillars and and storeyed windows richly dyked , casting a dim religious light , there let the pealing organ blow to the full-voiced choir below in service high and anthems clear , as may with sweetness through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before my eyes . |
| 11 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 13 | We look forward to telling you the outcome of this invitation in due course . |
| 14 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 15 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 16 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just got through telling you the food situation . |
| 18 | ‘ The madam would have had me if I had n't escaped by telling her the lodger in the room next door to mine fancied her like crazy , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Do not reveal your hand by telling them the complete story , but never lie ; if you make a commitment stick to it ; be tough , abrasive and if necessary cunning but always trustworthy . |
| 20 | You can say it diplomatically and with love by telling them the reasons . |
| 21 | I made a mistake by telling them the truth actually and they said you have admitted your fault . |
| 22 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 23 | The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth . |
| 24 | He served him well by telling him the truth and by refusing to scheme against him . |
| 25 | Unless you want to make the excursion unnecessary by telling me the truth ? ’ |
| 26 | Owen Anderson kicks off by telling you the physical changes that occur when you run 26.2 miles . |