Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They show us that something is there at that time , although they tell us nothing of origins , date of abandonment , use of the site , or its importance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And they send you lots of drawings and pictures and little poems and |
| 4 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 5 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 6 | These are the sort of people whose wines deserve to do well ( and do ) entirely on their merits , and I would like to be allowed to put my faith in wine merchants such as the Kendricks or Simon Loftus of Adnams when they tell me which of their wines are eco-friendly . |