Example sentences of "us [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 2 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 3 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 4 | The boss congratulates us about the handling of a recent matter and the interview ends . |
| 5 | What can the Irish experience teach us about the relationship between the STV and PR ? |
| 6 | Will he tell us about the relationship between his Department and Scottish Enterprise because , in the defence industry , we need a skills audit , which he could finance ? |
| 7 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
| 8 | So far in this chapter we have considered what patterns of gaze and the distribution of pauses can tell us about the kind of units which might be involved in the planning of spontaneous speech . |
| 9 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 10 | He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries . |
| 11 | Given that all those involved were volunteers , and had been chosen at random to be guards or prisoners , what does this tell us about the influence of power on human behaviour ? |
| 12 | After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports . |
| 13 | Dudley , tell us about the revolution in school teaching caused by microcomputers . |
| 14 | What does the survey tell us about the life-style of middleclass men in the UK today ? |
| 15 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 16 | It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring , that we start shouting , ‘ Bring us a basin ! |
| 17 | Archaeology is the principal source of data for informing us about the manner in which these changes took place , and how man adapted-to the revolutionary changes occurring in society . |
| 18 | Dr Lawrence , what can you tell us about the condition of the injured man ? ’ he asked him . |
| 19 | I believe that the Secretary of State agrees with us about the importance of the future role of the Territorial Army , and I am sure that he will do all in his power to help us achieve that objective . |
| 20 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 21 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The writer then explores what research can tell us about the impact of national policies on families , the impact of community attitudes , children 's experiences of divorce and step-families and some of the traumas children suffer in the course of family life , sometimes so great that they are driven to run away and then incur other serious problems for which inadequate provision is made in the community as a whole . |
| 24 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 27 | What can they tell us about the nature of an economy ? |
| 28 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 29 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 30 | The guillemots and seals were to remain with us during the whole of our stay , providing a continuous source of interest . |