Example sentences of "[verb] us something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we 've got a lever now , yeah , we 're gon na get rid of this in other words , Steve 's gon na give us something for it . |
| 2 | It 's high time the label told us something of the state of a pot plant 's native habitat , as well as which windowsill to grow it on . |
| 3 | There we were met by a Ministry official and an interpreter , who showed us something of the city and were very pleasant and chatty . |
| 4 | Although this table ignores backness , roundness and other phonetic categories , it also shows us something of interest . |
| 5 | Paddy got into his tent and said , ‘ I thought they 'd have offered us something for it . ’ |
| 6 | But to give us something along these lines . |
| 7 | Every time they collect our cows , they promise to give us something in return , but the next time ask for more cows . |
| 8 | Does n't Mrs Dennison 's natural repugnance tell us something about the morality of the act ? ’ |
| 9 | Letters to the editor , including agony columns , tell us something about the concerns people have , or at least which of their concerns are considered by editors and agony aunties to be suitable for publication . |
| 10 | Tell us something about you as a human being . |
| 11 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 12 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 13 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 14 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 15 | Erm does the fact of erm using the aircraft to er provide a platform for these systems , er tell us something about a change in view about the role or operating concept of the aircraft ? |
| 16 | Tell us something about the provisions in your day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 19 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 20 | In telling us what health and faith are not , sickness and doubt also tell us something of what health and faith should be . |
| 21 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |
| 22 | The charred remains of long-forgotten feasts tell us something of our forebears ' habits , but when it comes to tracing human evolution there 's nothing to beat comparison of genetic polymorphisms between modern populations . |
| 23 | The answer goes back to the origins of the Hungarian nation and tells us something about its individuality . |
| 24 | If so , and if we can measure it ( though it is not easy to do so ) , that again tells us something about their welfare . |
| 25 | Or we look at how strongly animals avoid things , and again that tells us something about how unpleasant the thing is to the animal . |
| 26 | The Greek word for this is koinonia and the fact that God reveals his being as persons-in-relation , the Trinity , tells us something about the relational nature of personhood . |
| 27 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 28 | The persuasion to marriage , then , is a criticism of the Friend ( whose reasons for not marrying may have been honourable or dishonourable ) , but it tells us something about the Poet . |
| 29 | A letter dated 11 October 1262 from Roger de Doncaster , king 's clerk , to John de Kirkby , the chancellor tells us something about the activities of these men in the French capital . |
| 30 | If God made man from the dust of the earth , that tells us something about the nature of man , the creature , as compared with God , the Creator . |