Example sentences of "[be] tell [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 2 | And while they 're telling you about it , take a close look at the finest four-seater coupé of the 'nineties . |
| 3 | Cathy Carne had also been told something in her damned letter . |
| 4 | Dierdriu was still seated on the High Throne , watching him , and Fergus knew a quick anticipation , and thought : is she about to tell me the truth about my birth ? and was both intrigued and apprehensive , for he had never been told anything of his true parents . |
| 5 | Ashley waited to be told which of them she was to accompany , but the numbers dwindled and nothing was said . |
| 6 | First , though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations . |
| 7 | Oh yes , oh there , aye there was , ah but these this lot that I 'm telling you about they were more or less traders . |
| 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 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Work , work , ah it was all work I 'm telling you in them days . |
| 11 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 12 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 13 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 14 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 15 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 16 | Marie has been telling me about her . |
| 17 | ANNA Bergman has been telling me about her best Christmas present — a reconciliation with her father , Swedish film director Ingmar . |
| 18 | ‘ Stuart 's been telling me about you . ’ |
| 19 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 20 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 21 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 22 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 23 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 24 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 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 | I s'pose 'e 's told yer about me , ’ he said smiling . |
| 28 | And pay closer attention to understanding what your body is telling you about yourself . |
| 29 | You need to be able to understand what the question is telling you about itself . |
| 30 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |