Example sentences of "be going to tell [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is one of my favourite shows , so if you 're going to tell me a bunch of big lies about what happened to your legs , well , I 'll just go back to watching my show . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going to tell you a story . |
| 3 | You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story . ’ |
| 5 | So I took his arm and made him sit down again , and I said , I 'm going to tell you a fairy story . |
| 6 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm going to tell you a little bit this morning about South East Arts and it 's support for the visual arts in the South East here . |
| 8 | Some of you from that part of the world will know that it 's a wonderful little shop , in fact it 's a gold mine and Jacqui 's going to tell me a little bit about her recipe for running that shop . |
| 9 | ‘ Daddy 's going to tell you a bedtime story . ’ |
| 10 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 11 | Can I , can I , yes I was going to tell you a story |