Example sentences of "tell [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can tell that , ’ said Arabella Buckley , ‘ to the Marines . ’ |
| 2 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 3 | He is an ‘ insider ’ : an ex-member of MI5 , rising to deputy director ; but you could not tell that from this book . |
| 4 | I du n no why he did that , but when I heard Marie tell that , I felt really horrible . |
| 5 | ‘ You could tell that ? |
| 6 | ‘ The easiest way to catch them is with a three-pronged spear , but do n't tell that to fishermen . ’ |
| 7 | From his inertness and his light breathing she could tell that Dmitri was asleep . |
| 8 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He was really sad , and you can tell that in the pictures . |
| 10 | I 'm sure his practice is constructive ; you can tell that by his results , but everybody 's different . |
| 11 | Will you go and tell that Sister there , she 's beginning to think you have delayed concussion or something . |
| 12 | ‘ You can tell that just from looking at him . ’ |
| 13 | For instance , they did n't tell you if the landowner and Mr Alec Chipstead were one and the same person , though you could tell that was what they meant . |
| 14 | I am a referee in a junior league and can tell that ungrateful lot that even in such a comparative stress-free environment , it is not an easy job . |
| 15 | ‘ How can you tell that ? ’ asked the cowboy . |
| 16 | Sentences in the deductive mode sometimes contain deductive markers , such as we can tell that , know that , think , must , might , or perhaps . |
| 17 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 18 | But it was all right , she thought ; she could tell that from the indecision of the woman 's manner . |
| 19 | ‘ Anybody with half an eye could tell that . ’ |
| 20 | Do n't tell that to Spike ! . |
| 21 | I ca n't tell that with McDunn sitting there ; it would be like telling my father . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe you should tell that to Artai . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And , ’ said Caspar , ‘ there is a heavy feeling to the air now , can you tell that ? ’ |
| 24 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 25 | From the first moment , Randall and Boot could tell that considerable power was being emitted . |
| 26 | I can tell that , you were tired before . |
| 27 | But I do n't tell that doctor . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel perfectly safe , ’ she said very firmly , and hoped he could n't tell that was an outright lie . |
| 29 | Will you tell that gaoler to give me some wine ? ’ |
| 30 | Jenna could tell that . |