Example sentences of "us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 2 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 3 | Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals . |
| 4 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 5 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 6 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 7 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 8 | Finds also tell us about the living conditions of the site inhabitants . |
| 9 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 10 | Tell us about the real reason you are here. , ‘ Why do n't you ask Benstede ? ’ |
| 11 | I is there anything you can tell us about the additional costs of er er increased specifications , there have been some increases as well minor reductions . |
| 12 | Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp . |
| 13 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 14 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
| 15 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 16 | We hope that you will be able to tell us about the personal side . ’ |
| 17 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 18 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 19 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 20 | A few weeks later , whilst visiting St. John 's College , he shared with us about the mutual support within the group and the high priority given to it by its members . |
| 21 | Porn can teach us about the simple mechanics of lesbian and gay sex . |
| 22 | Finally , will the Financial Secretary accept that there is no dispute between us about the sheer importance of ensuring quality in our public services ? |
| 23 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 24 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 25 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 26 | Well looking at the individual breeds of animals that we 've got here , tell us about the basic breed line that you you keep on the farm here . |
| 27 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 30 | He is a zealous Cassandra , frantically warning us about the Trojan Horse of Monsieur Delors 's federalism . |