Example sentences of "it [vb mod] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may tell you that your batteries are good , but it does n't say how long they will remain so ! |
| 2 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 3 | Defined in this way , social change may be quantifiable — but as an historical concept it may tell us little about the experiences of ordinary people . |
| 4 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 5 | Well it should tell you on it . |
| 6 | He walked round the room , examining every object as though it might tell him some secret . |
| 7 | Primate tool use has been studied by anthropologists in the hope that it might tell us something about our own evolution ; by psychologists trying to obtain a better understanding of problem solving and intelligence ; and by animal behaviourists simply because the use of tools among wild primates is part of their natural repertoire of behaviour . |
| 8 | It might tell us who killed him . ’ |
| 9 | It might tell us . " |
| 10 | Nonetheless the characterization of the fabliau writer in the text is a worthwhile subject of study , for an assessment of the tone of the fabliau beyond anything it might tell us of the usual origins of such texts . |
| 11 | Asa , you 've got very close to saying something which I 've often pressed historians on , but they 've never got quite as close as you have , and that 's actually saying that history is useful insofar as it might tell us something about the future . |
| 12 | Look in the doctors ' book , it might tell you how long you have to suffer . |
| 13 | Erm It 'll tell them where the clues are . |
| 14 | It 's the cheapest adventure story in the world , and it 'll tell you more about Koraloona than I can ever put into words . |
| 15 | It 'll tell you if it does n't . |
| 16 | Jus just Ferret and it 'll tell you what to do . |
| 17 | Well if you read that it 'll tell you exactly what will happen . |
| 18 | They 've done most of them are I mean the wo certainly the ones on the little little boat trips and that , I mean , they have all it does is that it 'll tell you there 's some fish about , I mean , it does n't |
| 19 | you can go and say er Nottingham , Grantham , Grantham to Lincoln , Lincoln to Newark and it 'll tell you the , the route between each town |
| 20 | telly on , and it 'll tell you . |
| 21 | It 'll tell you how much it 's worth , your activity . |
| 22 | Give you an analysis of your client bank , it 'll tell you how many you 've seen this year , how many you 've seen in two years , three years , four years , and it frightens the senior associates who have got maybe eight hundred , a thousand clients , and it said , seen in the last four years , and it 's got twenty . |
| 23 | But it 'll tell you how many first appointments you 've had , how many fact finds you did , how many subsequent presentations , how many , how many sales you did in September ninety three , week , all the rest of it , and right at the bottom here it 's got the ratios , right , how many approaches to sales agreed . |
| 24 | Well read the bottle and it 'll tell you ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll tell us if that swelling is potentially dangerous . |
| 26 | He dialled the number again , just to hear the voice and find out what else it could tell him . |
| 27 | He was regarding her questioningly , searching her face as if it could tell him something . |
| 28 | If only it could tell me how I am failing it . |
| 29 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 30 | soc : For one thing , it could tell us more about how variation is constructed . |