Example sentences of "[verb] us about the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ?
2 He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries .
3 He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens .
4 ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’
5 Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — "
6 Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’
7 The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing .
8 Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear .
9 ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia .
10 Archaeology is the principal source of data for informing us about the manner in which these changes took place , and how man adapted-to the revolutionary changes occurring in society .
11 Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ?
12 Well tell us erm tell us about the payment and tell us what 's happening to you and what you 're gon na have to do .
13 Dudley , tell us about the revolution in school teaching caused by microcomputers .
14 How much does the Gordon growth model tell us about the determinants of the price — earnings ratio ?
15 Tell us about the Moon colony .
16 Tell us about the circus , Thérèse said to Victorine : tell us about the costumes that shone in the dark .
17 Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) .
18 Tell us about the circus , Thérèse said to Victorine : tell us about the costumes that shone in the dark .
19 Tell us about the banquet , ’ barked Naseby , aware he had scored a minor victory .
20 To answer this question I followed Orwell 's first metaphor for working-class poverty and asked the question : what does intermittent itinerancy tell us about the conditions that produce the poverty of women ?
21 Tell us about the press release
22 Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles .
23 First , what does the Yugoslav experience tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the ‘ import-led growth ’ strategy ?
24 Tell us about the propeller , it 's behind you on a machine like this ?
25 He and his father stood up and Frank rose to follow them but Tony said quickly , ‘ Tell us about the prison camp , Frank .
26 Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism .
27 right tell us about the M sixty three 's surveys sweetheart , how many roadside interviews do you think we 're gon na have to do ?
28 And tell us about the children , how old are they ?
29 What can the Irish experience teach us about the relationship between the STV and PR ?
30 After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports .
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