Example sentences of "tell we [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Ipswich snorkel club the instructors had brought in their aqualung which consisted of a tank which held the compressed air a regulator which supplied the air to the user and a pressure gauge which told us how much air we had in our tanks — we also had a back pack and harness which secured the tanks to us . |
| 2 | So we was talking about things like that and so she she said like selling her car now she told us how much money she made on it . |
| 3 | The projects 's director told us how important Oxfam 's help is . |
| 4 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 5 | So , let's have a , an interesting and er , tell us why other department makes life clear . |
| 6 | Will the Secretary of State tell us how many ideas from the Liberals and others he has included in the Bill ? |
| 7 | Pluralists actually define British politics as public policy-making , and so they see politics as somehow " explained " once they tell us how those policies are made as a result of the activities of the various interested groups . |
| 8 | It tells us how many inhabitants there were and what they did , household by household and individually , recording the old family names , occupations , and streets one can still walk down today . |
| 9 | It also tells us how bad drugs are , when surely it would be better to try to cure the poor unfortunates who are under the curse of drug addiction . |
| 10 | If the Minister can not tell us how many women have been appointed , will he tell us a statistic that I am sure that he will know ? |
| 11 | Can the Secretary of State tell us how many people might be involved in this so-called transfer fee racket , which seems to be difficult to administer ? |
| 12 | It says a lot for our common social perceptions that various observers can agree in their assessments of an individual seen with different people , in different places at different times , but only a detailed inventory , as Robert Cairns and James Green at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , have pointed out , can tell us how actual forms of behaviour are elicited , maintained and organised . |
| 13 | When we look at the cross it does tell us how much God loves us . |
| 14 | If so , can he tell us how much money has been allocated to that exercise ? |
| 15 | He did n't tell us how much money he earns and he did n't tell us how much money he gave his wife when he was married to her and was looking after his own children . |
| 16 | He did n't tell us how much money he earns and he did n't tell us how much money he gave his wife when he was married to her and was looking after his own children . |
| 17 | It does n't tell us how tall individual |
| 18 | But although these figures do tell us how few families had a grandparent in their own home , they can be misleading . |
| 19 | Notice , though , that while flow figures are useful in telling us the directions in which companies channel the funds they received , they do not tell us how active intermediaries are in any particular market . |
| 20 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 21 | It 's telling us how many sets of different things we 've got . |
| 22 | The chronic sickness rate is a point prevalence rate , telling us how many people report long-standing health problems at one point in time . |
| 23 | I hope that the Minister will be able to tell us why that change took place . |
| 24 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 25 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 26 | In the light of that enthusiasm is the present Financial Secretary able to tell us how many employee share ownership trusts have been set up under the statutory provisions ? |