Example sentences of "tell [pron] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 2 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 3 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 4 | " Sit beside me on my carpet , then , and I will tell you about the golden apple and the nine peahens . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Let let me tell you about the damned side effects of this drug , because people are entitled to know what they . |
| 7 | Did Charles tell you about the proposed merger ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |