Example sentences of "tell we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 2 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 4 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 5 | We walked the town walls , whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick 's stormy history . |
| 6 | While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance . |
| 7 | But it , you ca n't then put that information together with other information because they 're actually telling us different things , if you see what I mean ? |
| 8 | Erm I think , I think they 're all telling us different things and they 're gon na be int yeah |
| 9 | Thus intuition comes in twice , firstly to tell us general truths to the effect that certain natural characteristics bestow prima facie obligatoriness , and secondly to tell us which of various alternative acts is more stringently obligatory . |
| 10 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |