Example sentences of "tells you [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the Policy Document , written in plain English , tells you everything about what is and is not covered ( Sun Alliance will provide you with a copy of the Policy if you wish ) . |
| 2 | Only the Policy document , written in plain English tells you everything about what is and is not covered ( we will provide you with a copy of the Policy if you wish ) . |
| 3 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Such a statement tells you nothing about the meaning of the word — to discover the meaning you have to transmit code 538 to the semantic system . |
| 5 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
| 6 | A wooden bench a short way up strewn with cigarette ends tells you something about those who only make it that far , but then the path is a long , steep ascent for anyone unused to hill-walking . |
| 7 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 8 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the mis-spellings and shabby presentation it hardly tells you anything at all . |