Example sentences of "telling [pron] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside . |
| 2 | My mother would never have left me without telling me when she would be back . |
| 3 | She 's always telling me when I do things wrong and she is always right . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 5 | As the housekeeper hurried away Luce asked dazedly , ‘ Would you mind telling me why I require a coat and a bag ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Would you mind telling me where you have just been , and where you are going ? ’ |
| 7 | Before you go , would you mind telling me where you 're staying ? ’ |
| 8 | Mm I wonder if you would start of by telling me where you were born ? |
| 9 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 10 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 11 | she 's here telling me how they sent over and she said oh do n't call for the next two week because we 're going to Italy |
| 12 | Harriet , she begins to talk , feeling the wine in her head , and talking faster , you are telling me how you bought this pretty scenery for Mummy 's sake , partly . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you mind telling me how you heard your sister , Sandra Riverton , had been murdered ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how you know ? ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps you could start off by telling me how you came into working in the lock trade . |
| 17 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 18 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 19 | I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub . |
| 20 | She had me in , telling me tearfully what she could , accepting the value of publicity . |
| 21 | It would be the same as me going to a medical conference or to the stock exchange and telling them where they were going wrong . |
| 22 | Telling them where they can put their cards in the best possible term |
| 23 | What 's the use , for instance , of alarming sixty-odd people with a preview of the Aberfan disaster without telling them where it is , when it is going to happen , or how they can help to stop it happening ? |
| 24 | ‘ They need information — and parents are usually very bad at telling them exactly what is going on . |
| 25 | The art director , sometimes backed up by his writer , is then responsible for " briefing " the film director , artist or photographer , that means telling them exactly what is needed . |
| 26 | They wo n't Brenda because if they did I would be opening the window or door and telling them exactly their fortune . |
| 27 | All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments . |
| 28 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 29 | When they want us to listen , we begin by giving advice or telling them why they should n't feel the way they do , and we do nothing but trample all over their feelings . |
| 30 | Imagine that the other person is sitting in the other chair — and start telling them why you find them so troublesome . |