Example sentences of "and telling [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 2 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 3 | ‘ Like they 're inside my head and telling me what to do . |
| 4 | People keep coming in and telling me I 'm doing wonderfully — but where 's the baby ? |
| 5 | I do n't want you coming back and telling me that what we need is more data . |
| 6 | She liked to plan everything — meals , shopping expeditions — in painstaking detail ; she was — again like Sophie — an extremely efficient housekeeper , always turning mattresses and telling me I ought to starch table napkins and put fresh flowers in the hall every day . |
| 7 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 8 | Sister Margaret is always nagging me about my earrings and telling me to take them off , but I 'm not going to . |
| 9 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 10 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 11 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 12 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 16 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 17 | with all this you arguing and telling me I 'm wrong when I 'm right and right when I 'm wrong . |
| 18 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 19 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 20 | Why are you coming and telling me . |
| 21 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 22 | He presented a strong message to the newly-qualified chemists encouraging them to try to win the confidence of the lay public by admitting to things that go wrong and telling them what was being done about it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have written to all our customers outlining the situation and telling them to contact us if they are unsure of the situation . |
| 25 | TODAY proved it by showing six women a picture of Clinton lookalike Bill Kay , who is on the books of modelling agency Susan Scott Lookalikes , and telling them he sold Hoovers for a living . |
| 26 | But the room was suddenly bathed in light and Nancy Leadbetter , who had pressed all the switches by the door , was among them and telling them to go out to the barbecue because that was where the fun was about to begin . |
| 27 | Involving the fire , the exit th there , we actually talked about er , issuing a memo to all the branches and telling them there ought not be electrical equipment on overnight . |
| 28 | How would you feel about standing up in front of a group of people and telling them something about I mean in her situation telling her class or even the whole what you were doing . |
| 29 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 30 | Inside , members of staff were dressed in colourful beach wear , asking customers about their holiday plans and telling them about the Bank 's range of travel products . |