Example sentences of "[verb] us about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 2 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 3 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 4 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 5 | Our thesis is that our traditional models and ways of thinking do not allow us to understand complex processes and — which is worse : often mislead us about appropriate responses . |
| 6 | Tell us about various reasons , not just study of value of the great of the greatest value there . |
| 7 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 8 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 10 | Le corbeau tells us about human nature , not national character . |
| 11 | His main focus is what this dispersal tells us about human variation and evolution . |
| 12 | He tells us about Old Mother Walsh and how the snake is coming for him . |
| 13 | Fisher Row is a special case , but Dr Prior 's fascinating study has much to teach us about other occupational groups within our urban societies . |
| 14 | What do these tests tell us about mental performance ? |
| 15 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 16 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 17 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 18 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 19 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 20 | Cox ( 1981 ) is interested in what women 's subjectivity may tell us about matriarchal modes of consciousness . |
| 21 | They can tell us about political slogans ( see pp. 37–8 ) , and give us important information about the people and places who made them . |
| 22 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 23 | What is all this telling us about real evolution ? |
| 24 | Finally , while it could be argued that Greeley and Rossi tell us something of catholic versus state schooling in the US , they have nothing to tell us about catholic versus Christian , multi-denominational schools , which is what most of the argument in Ireland is about . |
| 25 | It can be argued that Reich 's work has much to tell us about contemporary politics . |
| 26 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |