Example sentences of "[adv] tell us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 2 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 3 | Alright , yes , O K. Right , who , who 've we got left , Mark , you better tell us about Mary right . |
| 4 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 5 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 6 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 7 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 8 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 10 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 11 | On making those further enquiries you 've just told us about at the police station . |
| 12 | The politicians will not tell us of what is happening to the environment . |
| 13 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 14 | But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin . |
| 15 | Chronology of building forms can be established only approximately , and archaeology can not tell us of variations in the prosperity of a community from one year to the next . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 18 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 19 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 20 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 21 | If you think you have received an exceptional level of service , why not tell us about it ? |
| 22 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 23 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
| 24 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 25 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 26 | They can not tell us in any detail what kinds of investigations might be prompted by such conceptions , or how they may be carried out , what concepts and theories are relevant , and so on . |
| 27 | Claire calmly told us about Umbria 's ‘ surprising ’ popularity with vipers . |
| 28 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |
| 29 | Ken would start off telling us about his week and then go into the same — what I would call bumhole jokes , always the same about the problems he had with his bum . |
| 30 | right tell us about the M sixty three 's surveys sweetheart , how many roadside interviews do you think we 're gon na have to do ? |