Example sentences of "tell us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
2 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
3 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
4 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
5 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
6 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
7 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
8 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
9 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
10 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
11 | He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
14 | IT WAS THE YEAR that electric cars were big but two-strokes were bigger as Jaguar told us of a supercharged two-stroke future and Pininfarina let us drive the Ethos . |
15 | Jock Thompson , the head of Meikles Trust in Bulawayo , told us of a talk he had with him on the guidance of God . |
16 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
17 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
18 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Earlier in the debate , the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) told us of the Liberal Democrats ' proposals for a local income tax . |
21 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |
22 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates . |
25 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
26 | 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 |
27 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
28 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
29 | Werner Meyer had told us of a pool about five miles from the Rante , known only to the Toraja , where " sacred eels " were occasionally " called forth " by the Tominahs to accept blessed offerings of rice . |
30 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |