Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , though our parents tell us not to stare at strangers , not to speak with our mouths full , etc. , they unintentionally teach us much more besides . |
| 2 | Apart from this , the Gospels tell us virtually nothing . |
| 3 | These villains deserve , so ‘ law and order ’ campaigners tell us ceaselessly in their strident moral rhetoric , either short , sharp , shock treatment , including death by hanging or castration by chemotherapy — ‘ off with their goolies ’ — or long , endless , self-destroying stretches as non-paying guests in crumbling , insanitary , overcrowded prisons constructed for the redemption of lost Christian souls by our Victorian ancestors . |
| 4 | Now that the line has been fitted , the residuals tell us how actual chronic sickness rates differ from expectations formed on the basis of death rates ; the West Midlands region , for example , has less chronic sickness than you would expect from its death rate , but East Anglia has more . |
| 5 | After all , would you like to have the fat cats who make Exocets and Harrierjets tell us when and where we should go to war ? |
| 6 | It is regrettable that many of the photographs of rooms tell us little about their original appearance ; a comparison of Boucher 's wonderful ‘ La Toilette ’ with the view of the Boudoir from the Hôtel d'Hocqueville reveals this . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , to call oneself the Fourth Estate is hardly unambitious , while the very names and nicknames of newspapers tell us much about their occupational pretensions — The Times ( the Thunderer ) , the Guardian , the Globe , the Tribune , the Observer , the Examiner , the Mirror and Le Monde . |
| 8 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 9 | The records tell us continually who holds the land ; they very rarely tell us who tills it . |