Example sentences of "[noun] tells [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case Campion tells us that there exists in the archives of Norwegian Radio a preferable version of the Rhapsody conducted by Tuxen that ought to be issued — as should other hidden treasures in radio and other archives to which Campion refers . |
| 2 | The Dickens study tells us that not every dismissed employee eligible to claim unfair dismissal does so . |
| 3 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 4 | If they are able to remember the unpleasant incidents of their youth , their logical mind tells them that it was wrong and that the abuser was at fault . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody taught me , but my mind tells my fingers what to do , and I can make music . ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't turn feelings off just because your mind tells you they 're rubbish ! ’ |
| 7 | Science tells us about the structural and relational properties of objects , while consciousness tells us what they are qualitatively like . |
| 8 | During the death story Tin Roof tells Someone that they do n't ‘ move in time ’ ( 133/329 ) , but when he comes back to life , Larry feels as if he ‘ live[s] backwards ’ ( 104/300 ) and hears conversations ‘ in waves that run backwards through time ’ ( 103/299 ) . |
| 9 | Since the , that methodology tells us that although employment has been cut erm in the first quarter of this year on our calcul er calculations in many regions of the economy with the south east particularly hard hit well in one region , the West Midlands , for the first time we 're seeing an increase in employment . |
| 10 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 11 | Thus the chronicler of St Albans monastery tells us that about the year 950 Abbot Wulsin laid out the rudimentary town outside the north gate of the abbey . |
| 12 | ‘ David tells me that you have been very ill , ’ said Mrs Wallington . |
| 13 | Instead she said , ‘ David tells me you are also working in industry . |
| 14 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |
| 15 | Andy Parkes tells us how to get large fish at cheaper prices by growing them on . |
| 16 | Their self-image tells them that they are ‘ controversial ’ , so they act this out . |
| 17 | Why do the Government preach that we should listen to industry when they ignore everything that industry tells them about training in the construction sector ? |
| 18 | The equipment can be switched on and off by two switches on the front of the unit , and a red light tells you the power is on . |
| 19 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 20 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | stay out of your home until the fire brigade tells you it 's safe . |
| 22 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |
| 23 | The absence of any Irish film in the programme tells its own story about the current state of filming by and for gays and lesbians here . |
| 24 | ‘ The absence of any Irish film in the programme tells its own story about the current sorry state of filming by and for gays and lesbians ( in Ireland ) . ’ |
| 25 | The débâcle for the Indian family planning programme tells us something already clear from conservation programmes under colonial administration . |
| 26 | The headline tells us : ‘ They 've saved over 300 women from abuse , beatings , humiliation , rape and murder . ’ |
| 27 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 28 | It is a creation of society , not of individual reasoning or emotion , though it may satisfy both ; and it is for this reason that Durkheim tells us that a psychological interpretation of a social fact is invariably a wrong interpretation . |
| 29 | Two hours earlier , a caravan of a dozen cars had pulled up , Father Palacios tells me . |
| 30 | ‘ Not what Edward tells me . |