Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 2 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 3 | to meet with Jim so that we can a a the objective of which will be for Jim to tell us what the content of his course is , so we can assess where whether there are gaps in our training . |
| 4 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 5 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 6 | It was all very well for Dawlish to tell me to take orders from the Brain , he did n't have to obey them . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Adidas told us : |
| 8 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 9 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 10 | Studies of simple brains like that of Aplysia tell us quite a lot . |
| 11 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 12 | " You could of course tell her the truth , " Jane suggested . |
| 13 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 14 | Years of experience tell us that standard beds may not be right for every human body . |
| 15 | A warning system of whistles tells them when soldiers enter the camp . |
| 16 | A close friend of Webb told me : ‘ It does n't look as though Neil has a future with United . |
| 17 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 18 | Her highly alerted state of mind told her there was some purpose behind that question . |
| 19 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 20 | His low growl of pleasure told her she was pleasing him , and his voice was unsteady as he murmured against her lips . |
| 21 | Whereas the priests told him that he must die and would go either to heaven or to hell , the singers of songs told him that , though he must die , his name need not and that it was up to him whether he left behind a good or an evil reputation . |
| 22 | One day not long afterwards , Hopper got a call from Nicholson ; he was telephoning , he said , out of politeness to tell him he and Michelle were together . |
| 23 | Thus , while both firms have the same overall goal of selling furniture for profit , the more detailed breakdown of goals tells us much more about the different ways in which the two businesses will be run . |
| 24 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 25 | I have not been supplied details of the BMA/BUPA scheme , but the chief executive of BUPA tells me that between 1981 and 1991 total BUPA benefit payments rose 280% while BUPA membership rose 10% . |
| 26 | Her scream of delight told me this was a good time to move away . |
| 27 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 28 | Her training and her sense of self-survival told her to consolidate her sexual hold over him . |
| 29 | The so-called science of narratology tells us that all we ever do is tell stories about ourselves whose truth is no more than their plausibility and consistency with each other . |
| 30 | Anne and Margaret will be using their talents as writers of reviews to tell us about what we hope will be memorable experiences . |