Example sentences of "[am/are] tell [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 2 | I have my eye at the moment on the little-visited town of Amman , capital of Transjordan , which I am told is charming . |
| 3 | The consequence is that we have placebo responses to blank tablets and much stronger placebo responses to intravenous injections of saline which we are told is some new wonder drug . |
| 4 | His Lordship is hailed from the shore by a knight , who we are told is King Arthur , have you the sacrifice my Lord , who answers no , then take my sword and smite the water in front of the grot and see what my wizard has done , take also this dove and when asked , give it to the keeper . |
| 5 | Of course , in our actual observation and collection of data we move from particular individuals and instances to the general , abstracting from the particular what we see to be shared and are told is socially expected and approved . |
| 6 | The green left sleeve brassard carries a red-on-yellow rampant Lion of Scotland patch , which we are told is special to the CO and his crew . |
| 7 | I am grateful to the Minister for at least informing us that £500,000 of public money has been invested in Stagecoach in order , presumably , to help establish the level playing field which we are told is to exist in these sell-offs . |
| 8 | Another example is the Social Charter , which we are told is a matter for European Community control because of its potential effects on the competitiveness of business . |
| 9 | So one of the things that suppliers are told is they must on no account stress or age or mess about with any furnishings . |
| 10 | and that 's the criticism that I 'm told is I 'm not quite aggressive enough when I 'm driving a truck , but I , I do n't see it that way , I 'm not being aggressive . |
| 11 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |