Example sentences of "[adv] telling [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed , but he was only telling her the truth . |
| 2 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 3 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 5 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 6 | It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Barratt was just telling us the other night at the Goodys ' , ’ says Prue , as she pours coffee in the living-room , ‘ about how he had lunch with God the other day . ’ |
| 8 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 9 | He was surely telling her the truth , surely , with that playful-sounding promise of a comedy about the Wall . |
| 10 | He was n't trying to give her false hope but was simply telling her the truth . |
| 11 | She has probably known what the doctor is going to say and may feel she has betrayed the family or patient and her relationship with them by not previously telling them the truth . |
| 12 | ‘ As is whether you were actually telling me the truth , or lying . |