Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] us anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But these conventions do not tell us anything about the student 's facility with abstraction nor about his or her logical performance . |
| 3 | If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers . |
| 4 | This does not directly tell us anything about the ‘ weakness ’ or ‘ strength ’ of UK manufacturing , but it is interesting to note the sectoral distribution : UK multinationals in the food , drink and tobacco industry export more capital through this route than comes in ; in mechanical engineering the inflow greatly surpasses the outflow , while in electrical engineering UK multinationals export more capital than foreign firms bring in . |
| 5 | They did n't really teach us anything at the house , you just learned for yourself through being there . |