Example sentences of "[be] tell you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while they 're telling you about it , take a close look at the finest four-seater coupé of the 'nineties . |
| 2 | But participant observation you stand the best chance really of being able to check the accuracy of what , th they 're telling you in terms of behaviour and wha , and what people say , and what different people say in those situations over the , so you know . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 5 | Well I 'm telling you for a fact that St |
| 6 | I 'm telling you for a fact that Steven wo n't touch you . |
| 7 | I 'm telling you as a fact that I 'm the only person in this industry who 's done it . |
| 8 | And the people used to sharpen it to a point , why the Slippery Elm I do n't know , I 've often wondered about it really , but his person I 'm telling you about she she was delivered of a good healthy boy and everything was alright . |
| 9 | It was work in the days I 'm telling you about . |
| 10 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 11 | Oh yes , oh there , aye there was , ah but these this lot that I 'm telling you about they were more or less traders . |
| 12 | That 's the mother 's steel I 'm telling you about . |
| 13 | And , cos we had a bit of a laugh about it , I do n't know what I 'm telling you about it for cos you hear him read anyway ! |
| 14 | I 'm telling you to fu you can switch that lamp up if you want . |
| 15 | Work , work , ah it was all work I 'm telling you in them days . |
| 16 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 17 | And then er I were telling you about the er where the marshes was n't I . |
| 18 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 19 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 20 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 21 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 22 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 23 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 24 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 25 | ‘ I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 27 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 28 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 29 | The Maulvi of course selects a formal Arabic name , but the celebration I am telling you about involves choosing a name to call the child by . |
| 30 | I am telling you about this … to remind you that one can try to give an impression of anguish without aiming straight at the historic Garden of Gethsemane |