Example sentences of "you tell the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me you told the story of the apparitions . |
| 2 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 3 | HOW CAN you tell the life-span of a dance compilation is limited ? |
| 4 | How do you tell the age of a horse ? |
| 5 | How do you tell the age of a horse ? |
| 6 | Can you tell the difference between a sparkling wine and Champagne ? |
| 7 | Would you know if you came across somebody and erm could you tell the difference between a diabetic person and the , a per drug addict if they were unconscious ? |
| 8 | Can you tell the difference between long-life skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and their pasteurised equivalents ? |
| 9 | Could you tell the difference between that and the leading article from the Sun ? |
| 10 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 11 | ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ |
| 12 | The identity of the two activities is asserted , with a succinctness that only the build-up has made possible , in ‘ flowered acanthus ’ ( acanthus , a classical motif of architectural sculpture , is also the stylized representation of specific foliage ) , and also in ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ ( for there is no way of deciding whether ‘ nature ’ is the ‘ up ’ and ‘ art ’ the ‘ down ’ , or vice-versa ) . |
| 13 | Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl . |
| 14 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |