Example sentences of "are [adv] telling [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you continue to smack a two-year-old you are likely to make him more physical , you are effectively telling him that smacking ( ie , hitting people ) is OK . ’ |
| 2 | Livingston 's latest results are already telling us something new ; he has found that the Sun 's temperature ( and thus brightness ) reached a minimum in the summer of 1981 , but has been gradually increasing since then . |
| 3 | ‘ Friends are always telling me to put my prices up , but I enjoy painting people , like bishops , who could n't necessarily afford very much more , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ People are always telling me I am brave to ‘ expose ’ myself in the way I do . |
| 5 | You are always telling me tales of him rebuking you . |
| 6 | As newspapers and television are always telling us , divorce is more common than it was a generation ago . |
| 7 | That is what they are always telling us and that is what they have got . |
| 8 | It 's true , Blue Peter are always telling you there 's a new issue coming out . |
| 9 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
| 10 | They believe the Western world is always interfering with their natural resources and they are now telling us how to manage ours " . |
| 11 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 12 | I mean we we have n't heard anything directly , I 'm only glad that the police are actually telling you something . |