Example sentences of "tell us [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sex therapists tell us that sex is n't all that important within a stable relationship , when things are going well . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And tell us such shou 'd ne'er be wore , |
| 20 | What a pity that the Opposition never tell us any success stories . |
| 21 | Tell us another joke ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | British Rail was ruling out King 's Cross at that stage , yet two or three years later BR tells us that King 's Cross is essential . |
| 26 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 27 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 28 | Rule 5 tells us that property passes when it is unconditionally appropriated by one party with the other 's assent . |
| 29 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 30 | The very fact that the gravitational attraction dominates tells us that matter on the large scale must be net electrically neutral to very high precision . |