Example sentences of "telling i how " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet , she begins to talk , feeling the wine in her head , and talking faster , you are telling me how you bought this pretty scenery for Mummy 's sake , partly . |
| 2 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 3 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how old you are , Miss Thorne ? ’ |
| 5 | I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints . |
| 6 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 7 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 8 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 9 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |
| 10 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 11 | Sipping his first beer of the day , Tim Roth is telling me how , for a few hours , he was rich . |
| 12 | I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub . |
| 13 | I remember someone — the school cleaner , I think — telling me how dreadful this omission was , and how I recognised the mixture of shock and pity in her voice without being able to separate the two , or understand to whom they were being allocated and why . |
| 14 | If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you mind telling me how you heard your sister , Sandra Riverton , had been murdered ? ’ |
| 16 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 17 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 18 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 19 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 20 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 21 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 22 | " Are you telling me how to manage my staff ? " |
| 23 | ‘ You keep telling me how grown-up you are , Caroline . |
| 24 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Will you stop telling me how to do my job ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't need you telling me how to behave . |
| 27 | ‘ Feargal has just been telling me how you helped out this morning , and your idea of putting pictures on the menus . |
| 28 | ‘ You were telling me how important you and Dad had become . |
| 29 | I remember him telling me how in those days , things being more primitive , they often used a few cycle lamps arranged in an inverted L-shape with the crossbar at the upwind end . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how you know ? ’ |