Example sentences of "tell we [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 2 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 3 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 4 | According to what Texas Instruments Inc told us a few weeks ago ( UX No 405 ) , it certainly had the chips . |
| 5 | They told us a few months ago . |
| 6 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 7 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 8 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 9 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 10 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 11 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 12 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 13 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 14 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 15 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
| 16 | Though the rumours have told us a great deal , he 's still far from well , he might need a heart bypass , he 's gon na have to retire form politics . |
| 17 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 19 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 20 | These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes , particularly their relative timing or sequencing . |
| 21 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 22 | The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation . |
| 23 | The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image . |
| 24 | Maybe we should listen to our friends when they tell us a few home truths . |
| 25 | The rise of the acronym is perhaps one of the most important , if regrettable , linguistic phenomena of the modern age and their metamorphoses tell us a considerable amount about expert discourses . |
| 26 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 27 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 28 | Tell us the other one then |
| 29 | To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ? |
| 30 | Further , on one occasion the Pactus Legis Salicae deals with those rachinburgi , or local law-men , who were unable to state the law in response to the demand , " Tell us the Salic Law " : Dicite nobis legem Salicam . |