Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 2 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 3 | He asked the parents to tell him about the children , their tastes , their likes and dislikes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 6 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 7 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 8 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 9 | Each GP practice is now producing leaflets telling you about the range of health services available from the practice . |
| 10 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 11 | NatWest is to contact its 5 million cardholders to tell them about the problem . |
| 12 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 13 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 14 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 15 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 16 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 17 | I 'll be going to Governments and health authorities to tell them about the benefits for a whole society . |
| 18 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |
| 19 | What then do these culture experiments using denatured single collagens or collagen sandwiches tell us of the nature of hepatocyte-matrix interaction ? |
| 20 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 21 | Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity . |