Example sentences of "tell we " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 2 | He could tell we would n't wish , but he was the night clerk . |
| 3 | ‘ All the other variations require a horizontal position , and I can tell we 're not quite ready for that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can tell we 're in Wales . |
| 5 | You can tell we were on holiday . |
| 6 | Did you tell we would n't want any more ? |
| 7 | The attitude to time might tell us what he thinks , but it is the most inscrutable aspect of the novel . |
| 8 | You can tell us what they think of Il Duce . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now you really must tell us what you think of the Abyssinian question , Mr Tyler , ’ Brenda Waters said as soon as Edith had withdrawn . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , do tell us , ’ pleaded Wendy Witherington . |
| 11 | The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left . |
| 12 | ‘ Could you tell us , President , ’ Trevor Newsom asked the question , ‘ how you would describe your feelings when the marioc vote went against you ? ’ |
| 13 | Could you tell us why you are not at work ? ’ |
| 14 | It takes science to come along and tell us that what is going on under these circumstances is a brain process , let alone to tell us which brain process it is . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 17 | As Fergus Campbell has suggested , if the ERP can tell us whether or not the subject has seen a light , it takes the psycho out of psychophysics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 21 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Management does n't tell us . ’ |
| 26 | How quickly the deficit falls without resort to recession will tell us how effective the revolution has been in transforming Britain 's producers . |
| 27 | ‘ Can you tell us what you 're planning to do about the fall .. ? ’ |
| 28 | Look out for the Outdoor Action team when you do go and tell us what you think of the magazine . |
| 29 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 30 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |