| My friends have often called on me when there was someone that needed a telling-off and they couldn't bring themselves to do it. |
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| The twins glanced at each other, wondering if they had managed to escape a telling-off from Mum. |
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| Like a child fearing a telling-off, I knew I had to placate this man or he was going to upset me and I wasn't going to enjoy the game. |
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| Kate saw her cousin Dianna smile at this much needed telling-off of their mutually detested relation. |
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| One man gave me a most ferocious telling-off about the clutter in the cupboard under the sink. |
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| Then, this evening, came the telephone call and Graham received a telling-off from his mother for forgetting that today was his father's birthday. |
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| I'm sure mom's telling-off will be enough punishment for you. |
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| Distraction works better than shouting, telling-off or smacking. |
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| I suspect that the teacher saw a situation getting out of hand, defused it skilfully, gave me a firm but slightly more sympathetic telling-off and that was the end of it. |
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| The environmental-protection bureau in Beijing called Mr Pan in for a telling-off. |
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| The piece was a personal essay — a telling-off, essentially — centered on an Upper East Side, high-society problem. |
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| In the morning she gave him a huge telling-off, but she had probably saved his career. |
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| Peppone asks don Camillo to go and visit his son at the boarding school and to give him a good telling-off because he does not study enough. |
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| Sure enough, there he was, and he was already in full complaint mode as the key went in the lock, giving us a sound telling-off for being absent for so long. |
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| All you would get, apparently, would be a slap on the wrist, a telling-off but also praise for work well done. |
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| A SCHOOLBOY who wrote to David Beckham pleading with him to get him out of a telling-off from his mum has scooped a letter writing award. |
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| Therefore I think the telling-off was aimed at the wrong culprit. |
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| But producers quickly spotted the offence and confiscated the contraband before giving the former child star a severe telling-off. |
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| David's parents criticised the two PCs saying their son was so upset by the telling-off that he spent the night being ill. |
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| An investigation reveals the shocking truth that a fifth of all yobs caught with knives escape with just a telling-off from the police. |
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| Unhappy at his side's 1-0 defeat to United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Honduras coach Emilio Umanzor locked his side in the dressing room after the final whistle and issued them with a stern telling-off. |
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| And I have to hand it to them with their latest trick, when a telling-off resulted in me getting a phone call from the police. |
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| We got a bit of a telling-off at half time but came out and produced the goods. |
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| In the workplace, a telling-off usually ends up in a tribunal for abuse and seeking compensation for damages. |
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