Example sentences of "tell us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
2 | The Minister told us that clause 12 provided for the Secretary of State to take into account representations made by those who administer the pension scheme in question . |
3 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
4 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
5 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
6 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
7 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
8 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
9 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
10 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
11 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
12 | ‘ So you told us last night , Ramsay , ’ the Earl of Strathearn observed dismissively . |
13 | But a neighbour told us last night : ‘ It 's the talk of the estate . |
14 | Rather , they tell us what they told us last year — that they will maintain conditions for sustained growth . |
15 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
16 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
17 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
18 | It was the happening that we Hastings children had dreaded ever since our Junior School Headmaster , who also taught Physics , had told us one day in class . |
19 | You 've told us one point seven million disappeared in surplus |
20 | Criminal statistics , which reflect only the informal justice which was held compatible with these all-too-human streets , and faded photographs of carefully posed moments of tranquillity , tell us one thing about this ‘ stable and carefree era ’ . |
21 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
22 | Sex therapists tell us that sex is n't all that important within a stable relationship , when things are going well . |
23 | There is a wide range of vitamins and minerals in bananas , and dieticians tell us that man can live on bananas and water alone , though the monotony may send yu over the edge ! |
24 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
25 | And tell us such shou 'd ne'er be wore , |
26 | What a pity that the Opposition never tell us any success stories . |
27 | Tell us another joke ! |
28 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
29 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
30 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |