Example sentences of "tell us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 3 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 4 | For the next 4 ½ hours the men held us hostage , told us about their comrades who had already fallen in battle , and threatened to kill us . |
| 5 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 6 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
| 7 | There was an excellent example some weeks ago , when M told us about nuclear-waste dumping at sea — how much , what it contained , where it was ditched , how dangerous it might be , what was known and what was n't — all explained quickly , painlessly , economically . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 9 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 10 | In general , what lenders told us about their procedures for deciding for or against a loan ( or other credit advance ) impressed on us the care with which they try to avoid turning away potential sound customers , After all , making their own requirements too strict would limit their business too narrowly . |
| 11 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 12 | Richard Kite , Manager of Ann Kite Educational Services , adds ‘ We were so interested in what L.A. told us about Arune that we arranged to mail her four more of our Video Courses ! |
| 13 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 14 | Mrs McDougall told us about your brother . |
| 15 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 16 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 17 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 18 | Claire calmly told us about Umbria 's ‘ surprising ’ popularity with vipers . |
| 19 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 20 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 21 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 22 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 23 | She said : it must be what they told us about . |
| 24 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 25 | ‘ I expect you prefer someone like that man in London you told us about — the one with all the medicines . ’ |
| 26 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 29 | She told us about her family once . |
| 30 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |