Example sentences of "[coord] telling [pron] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 2 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 3 | So what was stopping him from going to her and telling her that she had no need to worry ? |
| 4 | Lifting up her pink nightdress her mother had then smacked her behind as hard as she could , afterwards putting her face next to Carla 's and telling her that she had had enough . |
| 5 | She could feel Jackie watching her as she took a step forward , but she resisted the temptation to glance back , thrusting herself away from him , one step after another , angrily trying to justify her uncharacteristic behaviour and telling herself that she had no need to justify it . |
| 6 | For a long time she lay awake , staring into the darkness and telling herself that she had been absolutely crazy to let this happen . |