Example sentences of "i [be] telling " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | You want me to tell you something and I am telling you something . |
| 5 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 6 | ‘ I am telling you to shut up ! ’ the Trunchbull roared . |
| 7 | ‘ I am telling you the truth , Headmistress , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't think why I am telling you all this , ’ she said , embarrassed . |
| 9 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 10 | ‘ This is what I am telling 'er always , ’ Madame sighed . |
| 11 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ I am telling you . |
| 14 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 15 | Ellen 's is a true story ; perhaps it is even the reason why I am telling you Flaubert 's story instead . |
| 16 | I am telling the police , of course , but nothing happen , they do n't arrest nobody . |
| 17 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know why I am telling you all this . ’ |
| 19 | I am telling the truth . |
| 20 | I am telling you that last night I wanted you . |
| 21 | Keep your mind free , I am telling myself . |
| 22 | I am telling you — listen . |
| 23 | Through you , Mr. Speaker , I am telling the hon. Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) where the money has gone . |
| 24 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 25 | If he is , I am telling him that he is wrong . |
| 26 | I am telling the hon. Gentleman what happened . |
| 27 | I saw my father , I am telling you — out in the street . |
| 28 | So I am telling the honourable gentleman yes indeed there there is a precedent . |
| 29 | I am telling you what we have done and what we hope to do . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah I am telling you . |