Example sentences of "[noun prp] tell us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 3 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 4 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
| 5 | Yeah I was surprised that er Kathleen is it , when Kathleen told us down street about her , her son |
| 6 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 7 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 8 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 9 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 10 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 12 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 13 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 14 | Go on Roy tell us about Jane . |
| 15 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 16 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 18 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 19 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 20 | We get on the subject of hobbies , and Denice tells us about her painting . |
| 21 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 22 | Peter Edwards tells us of one particular event recently . |
| 23 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |
| 24 | To find out exactly why dads are so special , June Walton asked a group of children from Pirton Lane Infants School in Luton to tell us about theirs . |
| 25 | ‘ What Pamella Tells Us About Men of Power , ’ ran the headline . |
| 26 | Richard Kite , Manager of Ann Kite Educational Services , adds ‘ We were so interested in what L.A. told us about Arune that we arranged to mail her four more of our Video Courses ! |
| 27 | Fiona told us on the way to the races that the police had phoned Harry to say they 'd found his car in the station car park at Reading . |
| 28 | What does the war against Iraq tell us about how the United States will exercise this unexpected freedom of action in the world ? |
| 29 | In this issue , Ruby Johnston tells us of the experience of a group of nurses in Ireland who have had to adapt to the challenge of this new way of working with communities . |
| 30 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |