Example sentences of "tell us [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
| 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 | Fiona told us on the way to the races that the police had phoned Harry to say they 'd found his car in the station car park at Reading . |
| 9 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 10 | Jock Thompson , the head of Meikles Trust in Bulawayo , told us of a talk he had with him on the guidance of God . |
| 11 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 13 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 15 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 16 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 17 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 18 | Werner Meyer had told us of a pool about five miles from the Rante , known only to the Toraja , where " sacred eels " were occasionally " called forth " by the Tominahs to accept blessed offerings of rice . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , somebody had told us about a place to go to , asking the bloody earth they were ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dudley , tell us about the revolution in school teaching caused by microcomputers . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell us about the Moon colony . |
| 24 | Tell us about the circus , Thérèse said to Victorine : tell us about the costumes that shone in the dark . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell us about the banquet , ’ barked Naseby , aware he had scored a minor victory . |
| 26 | Tell us about the press release |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Tell us about the propeller , it 's behind you on a machine like this ? |
| 29 | He and his father stood up and Frank rose to follow them but Tony said quickly , ‘ Tell us about the prison camp , Frank . |
| 30 | 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 . |