Example sentences of "tell us [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you call us on and tell us of any defective traffic signals or pedestrian crossings , we will get things moving again . |
| 2 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 3 | " Now why do n't you tell us about this Irish Republican Army , " Tom Rooney said to the gunman . |
| 4 | If a yogi could tell us at any given moment what his digestive organs were doing , in chemical terms , and some constant monitoring apparatus attached to his intestines confirmed everything he said , then we might want to say yes ; for the performance would seem to show just that immediate awareness of goings-on that we think of as intuitively necessary for a Conscious process . |
| 5 | " You can make something of your lives , " he 'd tell us in those occasional moments of confidence . |
| 6 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 7 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |