Example sentences of "[adv] tell us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 2 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 4 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 5 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 6 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 7 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 8 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 9 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 10 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 11 | He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries . |
| 12 | No no she did n't tell us about the loft . |
| 13 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |