Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 2 | I could tell at a glance whether the job was done or not . |
| 3 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ I could tell from the fear on his face he was not joking . ’ |
| 5 | I could tell from the amount of condensed milk which Duncan dripped into his Queen 's Jubilee china mug that he had a hangover . |
| 6 | I could tell by the tone of her voice : Mrs F could see it too . |
| 7 | I could tell by the expression on your faces when only I felt |
| 8 | I could tell by the quality of her alarm , which was actressy and overdone . |
| 9 | I can tell by the way people look at him . |
| 10 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 11 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 12 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 13 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 14 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know what I weigh now , but I can tell from the mirror and the clothes that I wear that there is , sadly , more of me than there was . |
| 16 | Within seconds it stops and I can tell from the direction of the line that the bait is lying in the thick of the roots . |
| 17 | And I can confirm ( for the benefit of Glenn , I think it was ) that Howard Wilkinson is not a member either , as far as I can tell from the list . |
| 18 | Well , as you might tell from the title , Gandhi 's Truth is the exact opposite to book , because it idealizes Gandhi , it makes a , a kind of psychoanalytic behaviourography , you know as if Gandhi was some er , great great kind of saint . |
| 19 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |
| 20 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 21 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |
| 22 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |
| 23 | She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her . |
| 24 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 25 | She could tell by the way he ground out his cigarette on the floor . |
| 26 | She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house . |
| 27 | Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings . |
| 28 | He took a deep breath , " I was thinking , " he said slowly , conscious of her arms still round his waist ( no ; one hand went to her brow , smoothed her hair away from her eyes ; there , though , it went back again , clasped lightly behind him ! ) , " about … whether you could tell from the wine on the inside of a shoe what type it was . |
| 29 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 30 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |