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

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1 He is a zealous Cassandra , frantically warning us about the Trojan Horse of Monsieur Delors 's federalism .
2 Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness .
3 Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ?
4 He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station .
5 Finds also tell us about the living conditions of the site inhabitants .
6 Tell us about the real reason you are here. , ‘ Why do n't you ask Benstede ? ’
7 Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp .
8 These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work .
9 Well looking at the individual breeds of animals that we 've got here , tell us about the basic breed line that you you keep on the farm here .
10 What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ?
11 What can ethnography tell us about the big issues ?
12 Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets .
13 I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes .
14 With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen .
15 Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like .
16 However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved .
17 I is there anything you can tell us about the additional costs of er er increased specifications , there have been some increases as well minor reductions .
18 Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals .
19 The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig .
20 What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ?
21 This , in turn , will cause us to address the broader issue of whether there is , in a more general sense , a genuine , causal association between insanity and at least some forms of creativity ; and , if that is so , what it can tell us about the underlying qualities of psychosis and of the creative process .
22 So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying , or basic causes of the so-called ‘ British disease ’ ?
23 I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci .
24 Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well .
25 He is telling us about the new initiatives
26 In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel .
27 Porn can teach us about the simple mechanics of lesbian and gay sex .
28 We hope that you will be able to tell us about the personal side . ’
29 Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year .
30 For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies .
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