Example sentences of "tell us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries . |
| 2 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 4 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 5 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 6 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 14 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dudley , tell us about the revolution in school teaching caused by microcomputers . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell us about the Moon colony . |
| 18 | Tell us about the circus , Thérèse said to Victorine : tell us about the costumes that shone in the dark . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell us about the banquet , ’ barked Naseby , aware he had scored a minor victory . |
| 20 | Tell us about the press release |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tell us about the propeller , it 's behind you on a machine like this ? |
| 23 | He and his father stood up and Frank rose to follow them but Tony said quickly , ‘ Tell us about the prison camp , Frank . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What then do these culture experiments using denatured single collagens or collagen sandwiches tell us of the nature of hepatocyte-matrix interaction ? |
| 26 | ‘ If you think that you have found a boy or girl with talent , tell us at the Lawn Tennis Association ’ . |
| 27 | These have been judged from what you tell us in the holiday questionnaire and we have also used our own expertise . |
| 28 | What a lot that tells us about the Treasury . |
| 29 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 30 | Frequently these words are purportedly used by the characters within the fabliaux , such as the examples quoted above from Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , but such terms are also quite often used by the narrators propria voce : in Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , " The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine " , for instance , a tale of sexual envy in a marriage , the narrator soon bluntly tells us of the couple that the man : ( He held her down |