Example sentences of "[be] telling me " in BNC.

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1 You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote .
2 ‘ You 're telling me , ’ Billy continued .
3 They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’
4 ‘ And you 're telling me you were n't concussed ? ’
5 ‘ You 're telling me they were murdered ? ’
6 ‘ Finally I had to tell him , I do n't understand one word you 're telling me . ’
7 You 're telling me !
8 ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’
9 When we went , it was really funny , when we went to do the , the talk erm , afterwards when we were all sort of getting together and having a chat , they 're telling me about , they do artificial , they artificial inseminate pigs
10 Well you 're telling me other countries .
11 ‘ You 're telling me that it 's official Coutts policy to bounce a cheque on one of the ten biggest private companies in Britain ? ’
12 ‘ You 're telling me something , are n't you , ’ whispered Creggan , ‘ something I can do .
13 You 're telling me that instead of owning all of three oranges , I 'll own three quarters of four oranges . ’
14 ‘ You 're telling me , ’ she said .
15 I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit .
16 You 're telling me that blokes we arrested , blokes we stood in court and saw sentenced , blokes we saw driven away in fucking armoured vans , have committed the exact same crimes that they were put away for ?
17 That 's what you 're telling me ? ’
18 ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ?
19 ‘ You 're telling me to shut up ! ’
20 ‘ This is truth you 're telling me ? ’
21 ‘ But you 're telling me all the suspicions about Mills are unfounded ? ’
22 ‘ So , when I happened to see you in a clinch in your office , you 're telling me she 'd lost her balance ? ’
23 You 're telling me she gave herself to the German to stop him finding the wine ?
24 And before he could reach it , he heard her say , ‘ If what you 're telling me 's true , then that 's all the more reason why you have to help me . ’
25 You 're telling me erm prior to the interview about erm compensation about work that the erm Law Centre are doing with regard to compensation .
26 And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ?
27 Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much .
28 ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason .
29 ‘ You 're telling me that when you arrived in England less than six months ago you 'd never been here before ? ’
30 ‘ First you try to disarm me by offering to pay half the fare and now you 're telling me I 'm allowed to despise a criminal . ’
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