Example sentences of "tell us [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Gillian told us just to , i if she could phone nan . |
| 2 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 3 | There are people now who are questioning society , whereas in the 80s the government told us not to and the cinema reflected that . |
| 4 | Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death . |
| 5 | Our evening was made by the presence of a very jolly guard , Mr Howard Morgan , who went out of his way to make the trip a pleasant one and moreover told us much of interest about the line . |
| 6 | Instead he told us sombrely of the deprivations of St Antony . |
| 7 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 8 | Looking first of all then at the operational performance of the aircraft , you have told us already in written answers that in the light of the changed security situation you have relaxed the Eurofighter requirement . |
| 9 | It was a strong probability that the Guardian still retained in their archives a numbered copy of the minutes which would have told us immediately to whom that copy had been issued and therefore the name of the informant . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 11 | Proust 's Faubourg St Germain was acutely aware of differences between them , but they tell us little about the distribution of power in France . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such indistinct features were , in the end , good enough to accurately establish the axial rotation rate but tell us little about the nature of the Mercurian surface . |
| 14 | Elections may help produce the personnel at the apex of government but they tell us little about likely public policy . |
| 15 | Tell us again in the words you choose . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First , they tell us only about absolute numbers of drug users or drug-related events , and not about population rates . |
| 18 | Luckily the annual Year Books contained small biographies of deceased ministers and these sometimes tell us much about the ‘ average ’ minister . |
| 19 | Language provides the vehicle for this , and the syntax and content of the recall or response tell us much about the way the individual thinks and remembers . |
| 20 | Catalogues , lists , the literature of the rose : all use a lot of words to classify the different kinds , but seldom tell us much about how they differ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The study of the buildings found on the farms tells us little at present that is definite about the rural economy . |
| 23 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 24 | Secondly , membership in these occupational categories tells us little about the wealth of the person concerned . |
| 25 | It tells us little about the writer 's private feelings . |
| 26 | But , as numerous critics have pointed out , that a sitter is , or was once , present in front of the camera , tells us little about the shooting situation , the relationship between sitter and photographer , the equipment and techniques used . |
| 27 | The free volume theory deals with the need for space to be available before co-operative motion , characteristic of the glass transition , can be initiated , but it tells us little about the molecular motion itself . |
| 28 | The theatricality that the Mann children seem obsessively caught up in tells us little about their personalities or what they like to eat , play at , wear or do after school . |
| 29 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 30 | The book tells us mostly about the problems of raising money that had to be done at each stop over . |