Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya
2 Or would you tell them in no uncertain terms to leave immediately ?
3 Can you tell me of an English poet staying in these parts ? ’
4 ‘ I will be seeing the physio Peter Rostron today and he will tell me about a possible scan .
5 ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus .
6 You 'd better tell me about the other night .
7 Now can you tell me in a wee bit more detail how you did that ?
8 Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’
9 " Sit beside me on my carpet , then , and I will tell you about the golden apple and the nine peahens . "
10 We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place .
11 I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man .
12 Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) .
13 Let let me tell you about the damned side effects of this drug , because people are entitled to know what they .
14 Did Charles tell you about the proposed merger ? ’
15 This is all I can tell you about the rapid modification process ; it has the effect of diminishing the prominence of events and combinations of events that normally occur together , giving prominence to new associations .
16 The TIC can tell you about the local brewers Tetleys ' Heritage Inns , including the 1,000-year-old Bingley Arms at Bardsey .
17 Before we start our session , I must tell you about an excellent course I attended recently .
18 Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ?
19 He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election .
20 With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers .
21 Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made .
22 Now that LIFESPAN knows about the media types and units it can use , you can tell it about the specific media items you have available for it .
23 You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’
24 What does this tell us about a biblical attitude regarding our partner 's body in the marriage relationship ?
25 I is there anything you can tell us about the additional costs of er er increased specifications , there have been some increases as well minor reductions .
26 Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals .
27 The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig .
28 What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ?
29 This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process .
30 ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ?
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