Example sentences of "telling [pron] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had me in , telling me tearfully what she could , accepting the value of publicity . |
| 2 | ‘ They need information — and parents are usually very bad at telling them exactly what is going on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 6 | In the preceding section we emphasised the fact that revelation in Scripture is ‘ receptor-orientated ’ , not in the sense of affirming the hearers by telling them only what they want to hear , but by speaking specifically to their situation so that they can not miss what they need to hear . |
| 7 | Having analysed the calorific value of every type of food under the sun , they then try to organise your entire life around their rigid schedules telling you exactly what to eat and what to avoid . |
| 8 | His voice dripped sarcasm , telling her plainly what he thought of that . |
| 9 | LITTLE BILLY 'S MOTHER was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do . |
| 10 | I sat there for an hour stuffing my stomach and telling him exactly what had happened . |
| 11 | And she had no intention of telling him just what she did think of him , not that it would have made sense , anyway — either to him or , more importantly , to herself . |
| 12 | Telling everybody else what the what the rules are and you know , what the pace is . |