Example sentences of "[verb] tell us [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 2 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 3 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 4 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 5 | The very fact that the gravitational attraction dominates tells us that matter on the large scale must be net electrically neutral to very high precision . |
| 6 | We really ought to have noted the various quantities remaining , when Dr Burney offered to tell us this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 've told us many times , ’ said Rozanov not looking up . |
| 8 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |
| 9 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |