Example sentences of "[noun] tell [pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 2 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 3 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 4 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 5 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 6 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 7 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 8 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 9 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 10 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 11 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 12 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 13 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 14 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 15 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 16 | The carpenter tells me about the Khaki scouts . |
| 17 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 18 | Did Charles tell you about the proposed merger ? ’ |
| 19 | So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying , or basic causes of the so-called ‘ British disease ’ ? |
| 20 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 21 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 22 | What can ethnography tell us about the big issues ? |
| 23 | It 's important to remember the classification tells you about the minimum facilities available : it could well be that a Listed establishment , for example , will also provide some of the services and facilities found at a higher Crown level . |
| 24 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 25 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 26 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 27 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |