Example sentences of "would tell we " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Do you reckon he 'd tell us if he had proposed ? " |
| 2 | " You can make something of your lives , " he 'd tell us in those occasional moments of confidence . |
| 3 | Some of the lecturers keep saying in a lecture , ‘ this is somehow related to something else you 've done somewhere else ’ and I wish they 'd tell us how it 's related to something else because half the time we ca n't see that . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd tell us these tales on a dark December night , around the fire in the kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd tell us stories about the Cuban Revolution and we 'd sit round getting drunk and nostalgic about something we had never been in . ’ |
| 6 | But whether he 'd tell us over the telephone , you think ask . |
| 7 | Yeah , but he said he 'd tell us he takes eleven tablets a day |
| 8 | You 'd tell us anything |
| 9 | A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’ |
| 10 | The bird must always come first , he would tell us over and over again . |
| 11 | We were going to be interviewed by a selection team from Castelnaudary who would tell us our placings in the ‘ Certificat Technique Élémentaire ’ exams . |
| 12 | An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system . |
| 13 | Mum would tell us things about her childhood , and then come to a bit and just shut up . |
| 14 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were hoping you would tell us . ’ |
| 16 | They would tell us that such comparisons are all hot air . |
| 17 | My master , preoccupied with Hopkins 's riddle drew me into discussion about its meaning , only to reach the conclusion it would tell us nothing until we had reached Glastonbury or Templecombe . |
| 18 | Every day at rehearsals , James would tell us the distinguished content of the previous night 's audience . |
| 19 | He would tell us about his love affairs and things what he did . |
| 20 | You know , how You know how he make love , he would tell us . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 22 | hoping that someone would tell us we were wrung — nobody would . |
| 23 | All he would tell us was : she 's female ; a huge star ; and she also sings . |
| 24 | Perhaps they would tell us , if they were allowed to spend more , where do they think the funds come from , and who do they think 's going to pay ? |
| 25 | Regarding paragraph nine Chairman , no doubt you , you would tell us if there 's been a response on this , because this does seem a useless step forward er , to increase the number of people at the coalface as it were , and self-financing , and no doubt we shall hear in due course about this . |
| 26 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 27 | And , statistics would tell us , that actually twenty-five per cent of the work force have some form of income protection , which is great news . |
| 28 | We could write all the names , addresses , etc , one after the other and our index would tell us the character position for the start of each name and address . |
| 29 | the only thing they would , they would tell us about is what 's happening in Iraq , there |
| 30 | No , Derek would tell us . |