Example sentences of "[conj] tell us " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the people who wrote or told us life stories : how far can they be taken as typical ? |
| 2 | As we became well known , people kept things for us or told us of toys they had spotted . |
| 3 | And it was just a pity that the material she was given or told us to read , she said was too advanced for us . |
| 4 | They ca n't force us out , or tell us what to do , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano . |
| 6 | So that told us that we had better get a full-scale defence working immediately . ’ |
| 7 | Mercifully , the storyteller does not preach , nor tell us what to think . |
| 8 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 9 | Consider , for example , a mechanical clock : its several cogwheels will all turn at different rates and it is almost an arbitrary decision to link some of these to ‘ hands ’ that tell us the passage of the seconds , minutes , hours , or lunar month . |
| 10 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 11 | For example , there are theories of memory that tell us that the recall of recently presented items reflects the operation of short-term storage . |
| 12 | Even so , that tell us . |
| 13 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 14 | AUX ARMEES FRANCAISES and FONDE PAR NAPOLEON EN 1806 , TERMINE PAR LOUIS PHILIPPE I are inscriptions that tell us indirectly why the piece was made . |
| 15 | Many objects offer clues that tell us how they were made — an air bubble in a piece of mouth-blown glass , or the tell-tale edge that the join in the mould has left all around a cast-iron object , or the impression of a paw print left by a stray cat on a Roman clay roof tile . |
| 16 | What are some of the clues if you like that tell us if people behave in an assertive , aggressive , passive way what are some of the other clues take that away from us ? |
| 17 | In addition to the firearms that tell us about and the door opener , was any other equipment issued to the officers ? |
| 18 | Even the Birds Eye ones , the pre-packed ones and what have you , frozen , are not as good as ours and that 's the customers that tell us that . |
| 19 | I think it was Kerry that tell us . |
| 20 | Or we look at how strongly animals avoid things , and again that tells us something about how unpleasant the thing is to the animal . |
| 21 | It is the demand to feel better , for one of the most basic injunctions of all is the one that tells us tautologically , that worthwhile people do not feel worthless . |
| 22 | It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity . |
| 23 | Let me see — yeah , yeah ’ — plastic keys riffling — ‘ we 've got a list that tells us who 's bought fridge freezers in the central London area in the past year … |
| 24 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 25 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 26 | Now , however , consider what happens if we take pragmatics to be the study of the contribution of context to language understanding : suppose normally an aunt gives her nephew T , but on an occasion switches to V , then in order to predict the intended ironic or angry meaning , a pragmatic theory must have available the detailed recipe for usage that tells us that V is not the normal usage , and thus not to be taken at face value . |
| 27 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 29 | No it is communication that tells us that it is so awful now . |
| 30 | D S S will actually pay them rather than telling us to pay them . |