Example sentences of "can tell [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ a fresh voice drawled , ‘ but you can tell me a few preliminary conclusions . |
| 2 | Properties who can tell me a property of this gas . |
| 3 | ‘ Hands up who can tell me a country which particularly needs our prayers , ’ she said . |
| 4 | You can tell me a joke David ? |
| 5 | You can tell 'em a mile off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fortunately the teeth of higher vertebrates can tell us a good deal . |
| 8 | To use the analogy of the archaeological site once more , there are finds which can tell us a great deal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These samples can tell us a great deal about the health of the patients . |
| 13 | ‘ You can tell us a bit about him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And no-one can tell you a word more than that . ’ |
| 16 | It can tell you a lot about speechreading . |
| 17 | Properly set up and organised it can tell you a great deal about your business and in particular your customers . |
| 18 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 19 | ‘ I can tell you a bit about your uncle if you like , ’ she said aloud . |
| 20 | He can tell you a tale or two about our friend in the hut . " |
| 21 | I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Bodenland can tell you a story about little children and graves , ’ Shelley told her . |
| 23 | It 's a cold wind too I can tell you a real wintry afternoon here . |
| 24 | Now I can tell you a little , one final remark , I at five thirty this afternoon met Mr , Mr , Councillor , Councillor , Councillor at five thirty to discuss the delay in dealing with this application . |
| 25 | First of all you need to know that the legislation says that , you need to know the current practice is that , and I can tell you a couple of funny stories about what happened to Mrs Ingalls down the street . ’ |