Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maureen was telling me today that erm he erm too , she took it to the garage and there was two bills laying on the table , one were for two hundred and sixty odd and were four hundred and seventy some odd |
| 2 | Are you telling me now that you do n't ? ’ |
| 3 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 4 | In a statement , Mr Goddard said the ESC had apologised to the theatre for any inconvenience caused by not telling them earlier that the play would run without a break . |
| 5 | We were telling you earlier that Blackburn were one up over Shrewsbury Town , Mike the goal scorer after six , well has equalized immediately for Shrewsbury after twenty , Shrewsbury Town one , Blackburn Rovers one . |
| 6 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 7 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 8 | She brushed aside Mrs Singh 's assertions that her son was not making progress by telling her repeatedly that it was unreasonable to expect anything more ; she used phrases like ‘ He is well below average ’ , ‘ He is slow ’ , ‘ He is in the bottom set , you must accept that . |
| 9 | But he was still haunted by the scene the girl had conjured up : the old man in that bright little kitchen with its ramshackle fittings and earthenware sink : holding her , kissing her lips and her hair ; then sitting at the table , questioning her , promising to leave her some money , and finally , as a parting shot , telling her casually that her father and her aunt had both been illegitimate … |
| 10 | Dandelion was telling it well and even Pipkin forgot his weariness and danger , and remembered instead the great indestructibility of the Rabbits . |
| 11 | Well Bob was telling us yesterday cos David told |
| 12 | But it does sound from what you 're telling us now that it is actually directly related and to recall my original question , was it related to programme to which I had the answer no , erm what you said . |