Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | ‘ Just between you and me , ’ said Dame Edna cosily , ‘ I 'll tell you something about that woman . |
| 3 | And he will if you 'd like to come along and speak to him individually afterwards he will tell you something about that . |
| 4 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
| 5 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 6 | A wooden bench a short way up strewn with cigarette ends tells you something about those who only make it that far , but then the path is a long , steep ascent for anyone unused to hill-walking . |
| 7 | Have they told you anything about that ? |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose , ’ he asked without any real hope , ‘ she did n't mention to you anything about anonymous letters ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you will tell me something about last night , how you spent the evening , whether you noticed anything unusual . |
| 10 | Please could you tell me something about this fish , such as how large will it get , so that I can prepare for rehousing it ? |
| 11 | I wonder if you could tell me something about this . |
| 12 | He 's passionately interested in , in his wild flower garden but I do n't think I know enough about it to buy him anything about that . |
| 13 | Erm I would suggest that if you are going to contact them yourself about this , that you make sure it 's done without prejudice . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't tell them anything about this , ’ begged Miss Watson , with sudden agitation . |
| 15 | Can you tell me anything about that ? |
| 16 | Can you tell me anything about that ? |
| 17 | Could you tell me anything about this vehicle ? |
| 18 | If you do want to ask me anything about this I 've got some little booklets or I 'm sure some other people here could talk to you about it . |
| 19 | Teacher : Can you tell me anything about these castles then ? |
| 20 | It is consistent with any kind of human behaviour , and just because of that , it tells us nothing about human behaviour . |
| 21 | Little wonder that we do not understand the basic ingredients of Aboriginal culture in Australia ; our education teaches us nothing about these workings of nature or how we inter-relate with them . |
| 22 | This is a rather negative approach , since it tells us nothing about any positive rights that citizens may have . |
| 23 | ‘ When a site is looted , it is not the loss of the artefacts which is the real tragedy , it is the loss of their context which can tell us everything about those objects . |
| 24 | When a site is looted , it is not the loss of the artefacts which is the real tragedy , it is the loss of their context which can tell us everything about those objects . |
| 25 | Does this tell us something about Irish pop stars ? |
| 26 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 27 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 28 | erm device or whether it 's telling us something about human beings . |
| 29 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 30 | He does n't tell us anything about that side of things but I ca n't imagine him ever finishing with someone . |