Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm going to infiltrate the skinheads and tell them about black people .
2 I mean , tell them about natural selection and all that and do n't mention God .
3 Tell us about various reasons , not just study of value of the great of the greatest value there .
4 Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) .
5 Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions .
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