Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adv] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They tell you only about the big names and the famous dates . |
| 2 | Yes , yes , he was a poor little sole all the way through was n't , but , erm , she does n't sort of tell you much about the good times at the end |
| 3 | The Agent tells me apologetically about the superstitious fears of these simple people . |
| 4 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 5 | But it tells you more about the personal horrors of living under apartheid than many a flashier epic . |
| 6 | Page 40 tells you more about the lively village and things to do there — yacht instruction , windsurf holidays , casual sailing , child ‘ Minders ’ and so on . |
| 7 | A brief aside from a senior Minister can tell you more about the real thinking of the Cabinet than half a dozen statements in Parliament . |
| 8 | The free volume theory deals with the need for space to be available before co-operative motion , characteristic of the glass transition , can be initiated , but it tells us little about the molecular motion itself . |
| 9 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 10 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 11 | The home of the world 's oldest surviving lifeboat tells us much about the maritime traditions of Captain Cook Country . |
| 12 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 13 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 14 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 15 | This is not telling me much about the far side of the hill , he thought . |