Example sentences of "telling [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 2 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
| 3 | ‘ He is telling me that we are here , ’ said Giles to himself . |
| 4 | We want to take control of the situation , but it is no use hon. Members like the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West telling me that we should have a conference and then table a Bill and that would be the end of the matter . |
| 5 | You 're telling me that we 've got nothing to fear from them ? |
| 6 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 7 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 8 | Telling me that everything was under control . |
| 9 | But I assume he was telling me that they 'll ask for Harry Maxim and the Committee would rather he did n't go . ’ |
| 10 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo ? |
| 12 | And fancy telling me that there was an interesting stoup in that old church on the island . ’ |
| 13 | But he was telling me that there 's twenty one cars been stolen from the car park this year . |
| 14 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 15 | I remember Ivy telling me that she and Margaret were ill for a fortnight when something of the sort threatened them — and I doubt if they were also blasted in the affections … . |
| 16 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 17 | When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill . |
| 18 | Scott thought , He 's telling me that she 's hysterical . |
| 19 | Father O'Malley never stopped telling me that she was a saint if ever he 'd seen one . |
| 20 | No , you 're not telling me that she did that ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ He just keeps telling me that he loves me and needs me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I can remember my mother telling me that he used to look out of his bedroom window many times during stormy nights . |
| 30 | Well he keeps telling me that he keeps saying . |