Example sentences of "tell [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could tell right away he did n't want to know . |
| 2 | Oh you could tell right on the phone you were sort of all keyed up with it . |
| 3 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |
| 4 | As a result they are merely measures of the degree of indentation of the coast , and ‘ tell little which a good map does not tell much better ’ Johnson , 1919 , P. 171 ) . |
| 5 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 6 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 7 | Greg 's mind played on Viola 's concern with keeping the record ‘ straight ’ , meaning that it must tell only her version . |
| 8 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 10 | I told her there were extenuating circumstances and would tell all when I got home . ’ |
| 11 | Also , starting there did n't tell enough about John Russell . |
| 12 | ‘ She says you 're the only one who can tell anyway . |
| 13 | He 'd tell over you and the next thing you know , you were on a fizzer form . |
| 14 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 15 | You can tell soon enough in Sauveterre that things have changed architecturally when you look at the church . |
| 16 | If ever I told a little lie , my father [ Sir Michael Havers , former Attorney General ] could tell just like that . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better tell just in case you 've got any thoughts . |
| 18 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 19 | By means of Crowns and Keys you can tell exactly what services and facilities to expect . |
| 20 | Ca n't tell exactly . |
| 21 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 22 | " You know , there 's something queer about the warren this evening , although I ca n't tell exactly what it is . |
| 23 | I ca n't tell exactly where and when the original plans became perverted . |
| 24 | For the chinless chap in his chalk-stripe blue suit , strolling to wherever he performs the daily ritual of being ‘ something in the City ’ , or the geezer negotiating the early morning traffic in from Romford in his late model Ford and Italian sweatshirt , their individual style says clearly : I am here and this is where I want to be , you can tell exactly what and where that is from looking at me . |
| 25 | Rory could tell exactly what was going to happen , and could n't stop it . |
| 26 | And the miner can only pick up a , a pick and knock the rook and he can tell exactly where er where it 's weakest in the rook . |
| 27 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 28 | The user can always tell exactly when data of a given type was last transferred by use of the Transfer Dates View described in Section 3.2 . |
| 29 | I can always tell exactly what you 're going to say next . ’ |
| 30 | Our artworks and cultural works must tell both of the issue and of themselves . |