Example sentences of "[verb] us about " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 2 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 3 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 4 | Because only a small handful of events can ever be experienced by individuals at first hand , we inevitably rely on the mass media to inform us about events beyond our immediate grasp . |
| 5 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 6 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 7 | Basil used to tease us about movement and chuckle at our claims for its fundamental importance in the education of young children . |
| 8 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 9 | But it 's probably costing us about er , three quarters of a million to a million just now net . |
| 10 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 11 | That 's saved us about nine hundred and forty pounds . |
| 12 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 13 | He is a zealous Cassandra , frantically warning us about the Trojan Horse of Monsieur Delors 's federalism . |
| 14 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 15 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 16 | For the next 4 ½ hours the men held us hostage , told us about their comrades who had already fallen in battle , and threatened to kill us . |
| 17 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 18 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
| 19 | There was an excellent example some weeks ago , when M told us about nuclear-waste dumping at sea — how much , what it contained , where it was ditched , how dangerous it might be , what was known and what was n't — all explained quickly , painlessly , economically . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 21 | The speaker told us about the role of the health visitor and how it was a separate profession to nursing . |
| 22 | In general , what lenders told us about their procedures for deciding for or against a loan ( or other credit advance ) impressed on us the care with which they try to avoid turning away potential sound customers , After all , making their own requirements too strict would limit their business too narrowly . |
| 23 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 24 | Richard Kite , Manager of Ann Kite Educational Services , adds ‘ We were so interested in what L.A. told us about Arune that we arranged to mail her four more of our Video Courses ! |
| 25 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 26 | Mrs McDougall told us about your brother . |
| 27 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 28 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 29 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 30 | Claire calmly told us about Umbria 's ‘ surprising ’ popularity with vipers . |