Example sentences of "can tell [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 2 | I mean as regards I agree with the woman when she was saying about she wanted to tell her husband about what happens when he comes home from work , but I think she wo n't need all those bulletins to tell him what 's happening , she can tell him the latest bulletin before he comes in the door , could n't she ? |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ a fresh voice drawled , ‘ but you can tell me a few preliminary conclusions . |
| 4 | Properties who can tell me a property of this gas . |
| 5 | ‘ Hands up who can tell me a country which particularly needs our prayers , ’ she said . |
| 6 | You can tell me a joke David ? |
| 7 | If you can tell me the initials of my name , you can have what 's in this bag . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then you can tell me the truth about Ibn and Butler . ’ |
| 9 | You can tell me the things I need to know and I can go away . |
| 10 | Dear Willis — As I am informed by those who ought to know that you have " taken the ground " somewhere near London River , I expect you can tell me the whereabouts of the dear old Fortuna , built 1892 , rigged when I last saw her in 1920 as a square foresail brigantine . |
| 11 | Who can tell me the next number . |
| 12 | You can tell me the day and the month ? |
| 13 | it 'll only be shorter , it wo n't keep you warm down the bottom , yeah and here on the neck it 's , alright you can tell me the colour of , but it , it is quite |
| 14 | ‘ You can tell them the police were n't coming for you or Miles . ’ |
| 15 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 16 | because you can tell them the price the size what |
| 17 | You can tell 'em a mile off . |
| 18 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 19 | Fortunately the teeth of higher vertebrates can tell us a good deal . |
| 20 | To use the analogy of the archaeological site once more , there are finds which can tell us a great deal . |
| 21 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |
| 22 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 23 | Milton Keynes can tell us a great deal about late twentieth-century hopes and aims in a democratic car-owning society , quite apart from having the best range of modern domestic architecture in England . |
| 24 | These samples can tell us a great deal about the health of the patients . |
| 25 | ‘ You can tell us a bit about him . |
| 26 | We usually assume that our minds can tell us a lot about what things are really like , but this is an idea which Proust , like Bergson , I may say , erm rather firmly rejects . |
| 27 | ‘ Since she can tell us no more , I will give the order for the embalmers to take her . ’ |
| 28 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |
| 29 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 30 | If he can tell us the one , surely he can tell us the other . |