Example sentences of "you could [adv] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I suppose you could just tell the police and — ’ |
| 2 | He is an ‘ insider ’ : an ex-member of MI5 , rising to deputy director ; but you could not tell that from this book . |
| 3 | There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below . |
| 4 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |
| 5 | Branches and limbs and hair and eyes all jumbled and mixed , so that you could not tell where the Tree part ended and the naiad part began . |
| 6 | Only his eyes were small , and they were set so deeply in their orbits that you could not tell what colour they were . |
| 7 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 8 | The space rattled with loud disconnecting sounds which echoed about so you could n't tell which direction they were coming from . |
| 9 | Here you could n't tell if there were any obstacles in the way , and there were no pavements either . |
| 10 | She did n't say much , you could n't tell . |
| 11 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 12 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 13 | that you could n't tell that this was this |
| 14 | ‘ It encouraged drivers to limit their drinking because there might have been the conception that you could n't tell people not to drink at all , ’ says the DoT spokesman . |
| 15 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 16 | You could n't tell by the way he performed . |
| 17 | The desert was alive , but you could n't tell how or where . |
| 18 | So you could n't tell whether their , whether a student 's cheque had gone out or not |
| 19 | What was so dreadful that you could n't tell me ? |
| 20 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 21 | Denis Smith reckoned you could n't tell which was the top club … and which was the bottom … that 's a fair point … but Charlton took all three … 1-0 the final score … |
| 22 | of pictures , and you could n't tell really which ones |
| 23 | Ah no ours are just you could n't tell you 'd got it on . |
| 24 | You could n't tell whether a Geordie 's frigging Irish or Scottish . |
| 25 | No you could n't tell |
| 26 | so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving |
| 27 | You could generally tell who was at home by glancing at the sandals . |
| 28 | You could never tell whose idea was what , because they talked everything to death , but if nothing else , DeFries was a wonderful sounding board as he would talk for hours and hours and hours about every little detail of the show , the order of the set , the music , the albums . |
| 29 | You could never tell if what people told you was true . |
| 30 | You could never tell . |