Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way , I remember Aunt Rachel telling me that a station was Rugby , which meant that we were then right in the centre of England , whilst a bit later on , I was told to look out to see the Welsh mountains . |
| 2 | Is he telling me that every young person in Devon who does not have a job has a YT place ? |
| 3 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you telling me that the likes of Rhodes , Parker , Tate , Hirst , Dennett was n't in their different ways fierce ? ’ |
| 5 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 6 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 7 | That same spring I received a letter from my aunt in Mavhinje telling me that the village had been burned to the ground . |
| 8 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 9 | It is no good telling me that the price mechanism does not work any more . |
| 10 | It was a police person telling me that the inquest on Billy Tuckett would be at ten o'clock tomorrow at Queen 's Road mortuary where there was a Coroner 's Court . |
| 11 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 12 | Unless you are telling me that the sketch greenbelt local plan is the same as the deposited greenbelt local plan |
| 13 | He thought he would do me a service by telling me that the Ice Princess who had caught my eye was right here , in Roma . ’ |
| 14 | Avuncular men in their fifties and sixties may not be aware that this term of endearment causes such a reaction ; you could enlighten them by telling them that the form of address is out-of-date and out-of-favour these days . |
| 15 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 16 | Arnulf wrote a letter to the English bishops shortly before their meeting , telling them that the French king , the French bishops , and Henry himself were all agreed to support Alexander and that they were only postponing their announcement until the English bishops could vote to join them . |
| 17 | It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " . |
| 18 | I wrote to my parents ill POW camp telling them that the crew were alive because Jimmy Marks had stayed with the aircraft in order that we could escape . |
| 19 | name name dropping the supporters I mean for to those Tories telling them that the that the association for county councils for example is a backer probably counts more than telling them that that is a backer . |
| 20 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 21 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 22 | Well , Fred , I do n't mind telling you that the secret is that I 'm one of a noble family . ’ |
| 23 | If this is not the first LSSTRT since system startup , you may also get a %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE message , telling you that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been reassigned . |
| 24 | After reserving the names , you should expect to receive a mail message telling you that the package has been successfully created . |
| 25 | You will also receive a mail message telling you that the DC is now active , so go to Option 6.1.1 to Inspect it . |
| 26 | Right now this time I 'm not telling you that the acceleration for some we wo n't bother writing it like that right we 'll write it this way . |
| 27 | They can quite easily send you a postcard telling you when a meter inspector will call . |
| 28 | This security alarm plug from POWERBREAKER has a battery in it , which powers a loud alarm — telling you when a fuse blows or the power fails , even through the plug being accidentally pulled . |
| 29 | A separator and trivet mean you can cook more than one thing at once and a Rise'n'Time indicator lets you time the cooking process by telling you when the right temperature is reached . |
| 30 | Then she heard , barely a distant whisper , but clearly , her mother 's voice telling her that the Great Wall of China is the only human-made object that can be identified from the surface of the moon . |