Example sentences of "[pers pn] can tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell by the way people look at him . |
| 2 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 5 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 6 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 11 | Saturday Night Fever ‘ You can tell by the way I use my walk , I 'm a woman 's man . ’ |
| 12 | You can tell by the way she falls upon these offerings . |
| 13 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 14 | Halloween approacheth , you can tell by the plethora of promotional Budweiser pumpkins and bats hung from every spare bit of Pippin 's ‘ pub ’ on Rush St , so we drowned our mortal fear in the spirit of Chicago ( I WILL ! ) and said a dozen Hail Bloody Marys until we could feel the city 's chill wind no more . |
| 15 | and you can tell by the speed they 're travelling what sp speed the wind is . |
| 16 | You can tell from the way it gets lapped up . |
| 17 | But you can tell from the colour as well . ’ |
| 18 | You can tell from the angle , and in any case an adult on his knees blowing through a pipe would have been likely to attract the interest of his neighbours . |
| 19 | This was , as you can tell from the name , a bastide , or one of the new towns of the thirteenth century . |
| 20 | But hey , there 's a bounty out , he could do with the loot and you can tell from the narrowing of those famous Eastwood eyes that he 's bored rigid with being a decent human being . |
| 21 | but you can tell from the amount of aircraft |
| 22 | You can tell from the slope that this is a typical shoulder shaping albeit in miniature . |
| 23 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 24 | We can tell from the way it leaps . ’ |
| 25 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |