Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell we " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 2 | The DoT told us : We have received a copy of the CPRE report and are studying it . |
| 3 | The Department told us it would have to be done ‘ objectively ’ by the careers service ; the careers service tell us that a ) they do n't know what is required of them and b ) they have n't got the manpower to do it anyway . |
| 4 | We carried out extensive market research before introducing HomeShield 50 , an up-to-date policy with all the cover that research told us you expect . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's one of the reasons why we changed our name — a fan told us that our music is something to feel good about . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 7 | The National Consumer Credit Association told us that members had found Asians particularly reliable customers . |
| 8 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association told us that in the experience of the smaller finance houses , chain stores and larger retailers who are members , this is clearly reducing payment problems ( thus making credit cheaper for their customers than it might otherwise be ) . |
| 9 | But in any case the Consumer Credit Trade Association told us that their members if anything tended to consider women to be more reliable payers than men . ) |
| 10 | UAPT and , particularly , CD were in favour of this , and lenders would not object ; indeed , the Finance Houses Association told us that some of their members already include this information on proposal forms . |
| 11 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 12 | The iconoclasm was soon obvious when the reviewer told us , ‘ In seeking to blame Churchill for the end of British Great Power status , the author takes the logic of his 1989 classic , Chamberlain and the Lost Peace , to its intellectual conclusions . ’ |
| 13 | The oxygen isotonic ratios of the coral tell us the water temperature at the time the coral was growing . |
| 14 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 15 | In any case Campion tells us that there exists in the archives of Norwegian Radio a preferable version of the Rhapsody conducted by Tuxen that ought to be issued — as should other hidden treasures in radio and other archives to which Campion refers . |
| 16 | The Dickens study tells us that not every dismissed employee eligible to claim unfair dismissal does so . |
| 17 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 18 | Since the , that methodology tells us that although employment has been cut erm in the first quarter of this year on our calcul er calculations in many regions of the economy with the south east particularly hard hit well in one region , the West Midlands , for the first time we 're seeing an increase in employment . |
| 19 | Thus the chronicler of St Albans monastery tells us that about the year 950 Abbot Wulsin laid out the rudimentary town outside the north gate of the abbey . |
| 20 | The débâcle for the Indian family planning programme tells us something already clear from conservation programmes under colonial administration . |
| 21 | The headline tells us : ‘ They 've saved over 300 women from abuse , beatings , humiliation , rape and murder . ’ |
| 22 | Later , the only Gentile writer in the New Testament tells us that on one occasion the disciples found Jesus praying and when he had finished they asked him , ‘ ’ Lord , teach us to pray . ’ |
| 23 | The number , b , in the deaf→not deaf cell tells us how many revert to normal hearing ; the estimated probability of reversion is thus . |
| 24 | This chapter tells us what it 's like . |
| 25 | For instance , if children are not out of care within six weeks after reception into care , research tells us that they have a 60 per cent chance of still being in care after two years , a finding that has clear implications for the resources and inter-agency co-operation needed for many social work clients . |
| 26 | We are aiming to provide these two sets of things for the child in care , not as ends in themselves , but in order that children may develop a sense of their own self-worth , and research tells us that we have to get the balance right between these two important sets of needs for this end to be achieved . |
| 27 | Academic research tells us that this rarely happens perfectly and so we need to examine the effects of the policy in practice . |
| 28 | Since research tells us that one in four clients are dissatisfied enough to stop doing business with a professional firm , it would seem advisable for every practice to follow the Ernst & Young model and ask their clients how they feel , particularly as research also shows that an unhappy client will tell nine other people of his or her dissatisfaction . |
| 29 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 30 | The Guidance tells us that " minor shortcomings in health care or minor deficits in physical , psychological or social development " should not justify proceedings unless they are having , or are likely to have , " serious and lasting effects on the child " ( para 3.21 ) . |