Example sentences of "he could tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |
2 | All he could distinguish was the sound rather than the words , but he could tell by the tone of her voice that Senga was n't taking it in . |
3 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
4 | He could tell by the quality of patience in her sigh as she began to lick the sweat from his shoulder-blades . |
5 | He could tell from the sound that it was an army Lynx , not one of the SAS Augustas . |