Example sentences of "telling [pron] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 2 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 3 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
| 4 | I can only recall one occasion when he expressed a quiet boast ; he took delight in telling me that he did not have one paper qualification to his name . |
| 5 | He asked me if I could arrange for somebody thoroughly trustworthy to visit the premises , telling me that he had given the key to a neighbour . |
| 6 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 7 | ‘ He just keeps telling me that he loves me and needs me . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah , well he 's I interviewed him er last year and he was telling me that he remembers going up into the loft in 's erm , the whole of the station yard was full of cattle . |
| 9 | I can remember my mother telling me that he used to look out of his bedroom window many times during stormy nights . |
| 10 | Well he keeps telling me that he keeps saying . |
| 11 | Nancy was telling me that he had loads of |
| 12 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 13 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 14 | Now the Secretary of State is telling them that he will cut their budgets next year to stop them increasing the number of educational opportunities and social workers . |
| 15 | Since Palm Springs , the commission 's chairman , Mr Setsuo Umezawa , has been telling everyone that he would welcome an increase in the penalties for anti-competitive behaviour . |
| 16 | He kept telling himself that he was as good as anyone around . |
| 17 | He would sometimes smile wryly , telling himself that he and Neil Pascoe , on different sides , would understand each other well . |
| 18 | He had no hesitation in telling himself that he would win . |
| 19 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 20 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |
| 21 | Andropulos may have made a mistake , Admiral , in telling you that he was scared that his spare fuel tank might blow up . |
| 22 | What you want is for me to stroke your ego by telling you that he does n't compare to you . ’ |
| 23 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 24 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 25 | Nell sat opposite Sheridan Lorrimore who seemed to be telling her that he had wrapped his Lamborgini round a tree recently and had ordered a new one . |
| 26 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |
| 27 | When she 'd said she was worried about her superiors , he 'd felt like telling her that he had her superiors right where he wanted them , but he could n't . |
| 28 | She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long . |
| 29 | The doctor was telling her that he was off to have a good time where Lydia lived , imagining that this would induce envy in her . |
| 30 | Is it perhaps an identity taken from the white bearskin rug on his study floor ( which he first mentions in a letter to Louise Colet of August 1846 , telling her that he likes to stretch out on it during the day . |