Example sentences of "to tell we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 2 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |
| 3 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 4 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 5 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 6 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 7 | Thus intuition comes in twice , firstly to tell us general truths to the effect that certain natural characteristics bestow prima facie obligatoriness , and secondly to tell us which of various alternative acts is more stringently obligatory . |
| 8 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 9 | At each stage of the research we interviewed people all over Scotland asking them to tell us three things : |
| 10 | We really ought to have noted the various quantities remaining , when Dr Burney offered to tell us this morning . |
| 11 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |