Example sentences of "telling [pron] about [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | apart from me and Stuart there 's nothing personal on it really , we went me and er telling me about her problems I only put that on a tape do you ? |
| 2 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 3 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 4 | Do you know , yesterday he was telling me about his past . |
| 5 | As we walk out to our cars , Peter shuffles in beside me , telling me about his children . |
| 6 | Telling everyone about her mum and dad when they and erm how she talked to her mum about that , and it helped her . |
| 7 | Telling you about its acceleration . |
| 8 | ‘ I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'd like to spend erm a few minutes , hopefully not too long because I 'm er known for talking for hours and hours when it comes to our company and our product , but hopefully just a few minutes telling you about our approach to developing an open accounting system . |
| 11 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 12 | For whatever that small voice of intuition was telling her about her destiny , common-sense decreed that the Prince already had a full hand of potential suitors . |
| 13 | I fetched another fistful of miniatures and spent the rest of the flight telling her about my philosophy . |
| 14 | He began by telling her about his bid for G.W. Fashions and the antagonism it had sparked among his rivals . |
| 15 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 16 | In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue . |
| 17 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly wondering what she was doing , telling him about her life . |
| 18 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 19 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 20 | It led to a dialogue with Montefiore , with my telling him about my friend who has had AIDS now for six years and who , thanks to AZT , is still alive . |
| 21 | I got some insight into this when I was telling him about my readings in Zen , and trying to explain the principles of yin and yan . |
| 22 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 23 | They was telling , telling us about their son cos he 's got erm a Nintendo game system , same as |
| 24 | Ken would start off telling us about his week and then go into the same — what I would call bumhole jokes , always the same about the problems he had with his bum . |