Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had already released the information to trade papers but we were going to wait until after Christmas to tell everyone else , ’ said spokesman George Marcall . |
| 2 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 3 | " You could of course tell her the truth , " Jane suggested . |
| 4 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 5 | Years of experience tell us that standard beds may not be right for every human body . |
| 6 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 7 | Her highly alerted state of mind told her there was some purpose behind that question . |
| 8 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 9 | His low growl of pleasure told her she was pleasing him , and his voice was unsteady as he murmured against her lips . |
| 10 | Her scream of delight told me this was a good time to move away . |
| 11 | Her training and her sense of self-survival told her to consolidate her sexual hold over him . |
| 12 | The so-called science of narratology tells us that all we ever do is tell stories about ourselves whose truth is no more than their plausibility and consistency with each other . |
| 13 | Well there 's not a lot of point telling you la , if you 've seen it is there ? |
| 14 | I 'm not the type of person to tell him straight out to go . ’ |
| 15 | Although her mother was n't the sort of person to tell you anything if it was something she did n't think you needed to know . |
| 16 | A faint tinkle of metal told me that Shep was lurking there in his kennel and I slowed my steps ; I was n't going to be caught again . |
| 17 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 18 | See I did n't write asking sort of advice telling her |
| 19 | The last view is suggested by his claims that we are conscious of some memories ( those brought to INTROSPECTION in the ‘ control box ’ for example ) and some of the commands to say things ( as in deliberately saying something , as distinct from finding ourselves saying it ) , which would be messages from the ‘ control box ’ to PR ( the ‘ public relations box ’ , by analogy with the White House public relations chief , who is simply handed a piece of paper telling him what to say , but not to think about ) . |
| 20 | This has caused accountancy specialists to send out reams of paper telling us their software is capable of handling the new EC regulations on VAT . |
| 21 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 22 | This sign of friendliness tells you how much neighbours enjoy each other 's company . |
| 23 | To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ? |
| 24 | Will the Secretary of State tell us how many ideas from the Liberals and others he has included in the Bill ? |
| 25 | Can the Secretary of State tell me how local authorities will do what he describes ? |
| 26 | Can the Secretary of State tell us the real social cost to our country of the devastation of our manufacturing industry and our economy ? |
| 27 | Can the Secretary of State tell us something about the effect of the council tax on the agricultural community ? |
| 28 | Can the Secretary of State tell us , three years after Clapham , what the total cost is of implementing the Hidden recommendations to make our system safer ? |
| 29 | Can the Secretary of State tell us how many people might be involved in this so-called transfer fee racket , which seems to be difficult to administer ? |
| 30 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |