Example sentences of "[noun] 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 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 3 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
| 6 | Yeah I was surprised that er Kathleen is it , when Kathleen told us down street about her , her son |
| 7 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 8 | For this reason we are asking our readers to tell us about their experiences in the jobs race . |
| 9 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | For The Sun told us of members of Britain 's Asian community being brought together to win the votes of that community . |
| 12 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 13 | So the changes in the spectral lines tell us of changes in the Sun 's temperature , which in turn reveal changes in the solar luminosity . |
| 14 | What do these sites tell us about settlement in the landscape ? |
| 15 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 16 | One of Grice 's maxims tells us to ‘ be relevant ’ — but it does not attempt to explain the notion of relevance . |
| 17 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 18 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 19 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 20 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 21 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 23 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 26 | Go on Roy tell us about Jane . |
| 27 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 28 | ( 4 ) A reasoning question asks the pupils to explain something , e.g. " What does the picture tell us about how the Normans and Saxons fought ? " |
| 29 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 30 | Anne and Margaret will be using their talents as writers of reviews to tell us about what we hope will be memorable experiences . |