Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] tell [pers pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 2 | They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan . |
| 3 | I hope that we shall hear the Solicitor-General tell us shortly that such an amendment has the approval and support of the Government . |
| 4 | ‘ We want to give him the chance to tell us how this strong criticism of him is not justified . |
| 5 | Does the report tell you how much against each policy ? |
| 6 | A number on the left-hand side of the symbol tells you how many plain rows to knit . |
| 7 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 8 | But the manufacturers say politicians have no right to tell them how much to charge . |
| 9 | Labour law and order spokesman Alun Michael MP said : ‘ If every item of shopping we bought had a ticket telling us how much of its price was due to crime losses and higher insurance premiums , we would all be appalled . |
| 10 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 11 | Back in Oxford I fax John a note telling him how much I have enjoyed working with him , and urging him not to get too red . |
| 12 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |