Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language provides the vehicle for this , and the syntax and content of the recall or response tell us much about the way the individual thinks and remembers . |
| 2 | the nose or bouquet tells you plenty . |
| 3 | Each tail movement or posture tells us ( and other cats ) something about the animal 's emotional condition and it is possible to draw up a ‘ de-coding key ’ , as follows : |
| 4 | For example , a magical liquid which needs a component of ethereality might allow the links to be separated , but the adventurers will have to find an Alchemist or Scholar to tell them of this , and then they must find the ingredients for the magical liquid . |
| 5 | ‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 7 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 8 | I am never surprised when after a holiday a colleague or neighbour tells me ‘ I had a very nice holiday but I must say it 's nice to get back to work ’ . |
| 9 | Winds blow as they should , in the directions that physics tells us they should , at the right speed and in the proper season . |
| 10 | Why do the Government preach that we should listen to industry when they ignore everything that industry tells them about training in the construction sector ? |
| 11 | We carried out extensive market research before introducing HomeShield 50 , an up-to-date policy with all the cover that research told us you expect . |
| 12 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 13 | ‘ Rose will believe anything that man tells her , ’ fumed Dora . |
| 14 | Our intuition and experience tells us that the division algorithm is clearly true . |
| 15 | We are aiming to provide these two sets of things for the child in care , not as ends in themselves , but in order that children may develop a sense of their own self-worth , and research tells us that we have to get the balance right between these two important sets of needs for this end to be achieved . |
| 16 | The respect that was growing so unstoppably in her heart and mind told her he not only meant what he said but had proven beyond doubt that he was capable of it . |
| 17 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 18 | ‘ Any adventures or encounters ? ’ asked Susan languidly , and Breeze told her all about Mrs Dare , and Ebenezer Arkwright , and the Blessington-Dalrymples . |
| 19 | Bulbs , er probably not cos I think I 'll have to do while you 're at school cos daddy tells me it 's gon na rain this afternoon , I 'll have to do that this morning , pity that . |
| 20 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 21 | Answer guide : This is an easy situation after the last one , here the wages are for the year and matching tells us they should be charged to this year . |
| 22 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 23 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 24 | No , the sole reason for changing one 's mind was that the newspapers and television told one that lots of other people had done so . |
| 25 | His mother and father told themselves that he was only six and was bound to change , but the incident that had made his grandfather King already coloured his life . |
| 26 | with Grace but , I 'm also down to read at St.Joseph 's and Father tells me there wo n't be two masses on Ash Wednesday . |
| 27 | And Control told him . |
| 28 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 29 | It captured his imagination , as he later showed in Marmion ; and that imagination was further fed by books in the farmhouse window seat and by the Border tales his aunt and grandmother told him . |
| 30 | That family is as poor as church mice , and Stair told me that Havvie had already managed to snare one Yankee heiress , but she got away , and now he has caught another — not quite so rich , but rich enough . |