Example sentences of "tells [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spotting a stricken boat , they are amazed when a terrified young man ( Billy Zane ) swims towards them , climbs aboard and tells them a horrifying story about an attack of food poisoning . |
| 2 | Someone tells me the other day that I , I 've you know y |
| 3 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 4 | The clear lines leading the eye to the altar where the focus of the Christian life is celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice tells you a great deal about Bishop Harris . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes it 's only the clock which tells you a good run from a bad , ’ said Martin . |
| 6 | Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response . |
| 7 | Tells you a free-transfer player 's been taken from your squad . |
| 8 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 9 | And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance . |
| 10 | The information provided in this leaflet is not intended to be exhaustive , but tells you the basic facts about the IUD on the basis of evidence available at the time of publication . |
| 11 | If you wish you can ‘ phone or write for details of NHS or free-paying clinics to the A final word The information provided in this leaflet is not intended to be exhaustive , but tells you the basic facts about male and female sterilisation on the basis of evidence available at the time of publication . |
| 12 | What 's the ob oh wait a minute , perhaps this is , tells you the attached carton the attached carton contains your surprise gift , a handsome acacia wood salt cellar made to a sturdy traditional design it 's finished in an attractive shade that enhances the natural grain of the wood . |
| 13 | Any Cathedral tells one a great deal about those responsible for its erection . |
| 14 | But the information she actually obtains from observing the price of her good tells her the total effect of these two influences and not their individual effects . |
| 15 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |
| 16 | This search for soft touches tells us a great deal about ourselves . |
| 17 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
| 18 | It tells us a good deal about the relative values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that where the Victorians modelled their stations on cathedrals and palaces , Modern Man models his on shopping centres and office blocks . |
| 19 | The difference between the comfort of the villa owner 's quarters and the room sin which his slaves worked and lived , tells us a good deal about the low standards slaves had to accept for themselves . |
| 20 | RICHARD ROLLE 'S conversion to the solitary life tells us a good deal about his spirituality . |
| 21 | As Morgan ( 1985 , pp. 169–70 ) points out in his review of studies in family history , history never just tells us a single story — there are many possible stories , depending upon what questions we ask . |
| 22 | More recent theories suggest the crossing place further down river at Rochester or Chatham , but Dunkin tells us the Roman Army ( the seventh and tenth legions ) then turned along through what is now Snodland and Halling burning and wasting the country as they advanced through the villages . |
| 23 | The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced . |
| 24 | The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work . |