Example sentences of "tell us something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't Mrs Dennison 's natural repugnance tell us something about the morality of the act ? ’ |
| 2 | Letters to the editor , including agony columns , tell us something about the concerns people have , or at least which of their concerns are considered by editors and agony aunties to be suitable for publication . |
| 3 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 4 | The remains of sheilings tell us something about the pattern of agriculture and the temporary removal of the people in summer to tend their cattle in the hills . |
| 5 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |
| 6 | Tell us something about the provisions in your day . |
| 7 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 8 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |