Example sentences of "tell us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These experiments tell us a great deal about certain aspects of cognitive processes , particularly their relative timing or sequencing . |
| 2 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 3 | The records tell us a little about the labourers employed by the lords . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm worn out with eating , ’ he said , ‘ I want to sit on your lap while you tell us a story . |
| 5 | Come on , Dandelion , tell us a story . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell us a story . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — tell us a story , ’ said the bigger girl . |
| 8 | " Then tell us a bit more about the natives , " said Chuck lightly , sipping his champagne and glancing around at the little groups of Annamese who were tending to draw closer together as the babble of noise from the French around them grew louder . |
| 9 | Yeah tell us a bit about it cos |
| 10 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 11 | We do not do this , but we could — and the reasons we could , but do not , tell us a lot about the factors involved in decisions about activities in the landscape , including settlement siting . |
| 12 | Maybe we should listen to our friends when they tell us a few home truths . |
| 13 | The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation . |
| 14 | But those fe four words tell us a lot about what lies ahead for the N H S in Britain , unless we 're very careful . |
| 15 | The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image . |
| 16 | The rise of the acronym is perhaps one of the most important , if regrettable , linguistic phenomena of the modern age and their metamorphoses tell us a considerable amount about expert discourses . |
| 17 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 18 | It will also , as Barrington says , tell us the facts of life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They tell us the exact positions and brightness but nothing of their distances . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell us the bad news first Sir , ’ they all chorused . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , go on then , tell us the rest of it . ’ |
| 23 | Tell us the truth , Mr Major |
| 24 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
| 25 | Tell us the recipe and I 'll have the Imperial Engineers build a weapon that will destroy the Goblin hordes forever . ’ |
| 26 | As the Amsterdam specialists we know the best things to do and see in and around Amsterdam , simply tell us the type of holiday your group requires and leave all the planning to us . |
| 27 | You can spend part of your holiday in Amsterdam and part in the Other Holland ; simply tell us the number of nights you would like to stay in each place and we will make all the arrangements . |
| 28 | The Italian , French and Austrian industry ministers tell us the same . |
| 29 | The oxygen isotonic ratios of the coral tell us the water temperature at the time the coral was growing . |
| 30 | Tell us the news , Tall . ’ |