Example sentences of "she could tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out . |
| 2 | She could tell this by looking at his back as he stood at the bar ordering more drinks . |
| 3 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 4 | She could tell that he was relaxed and happy . |
| 5 | She could tell with Gloria . |
| 6 | Marie felt she could tell Simon everything : he was a good listener . |
| 7 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 8 | From his inertness and his light breathing she could tell that Dmitri was asleep . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 11 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 12 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 13 | He had come to say something nasty , she could tell . |
| 14 | The corridor remained empty , as far as she could tell . |
| 15 | That girl was going to try to put the blame on her , she could tell . |
| 16 | But , as she could tell the 1992 contestants lining up today in South Africa 's Sun City , it brought her nothing but heartache . |
| 17 | She could tell that he had just as swiftly regretted it , for he quickly added , ‘ I mean , between us , surely , we 're capable of raising a child . |
| 18 | Perhaps she could tell me why I was bleeding . |
| 19 | A sensitive child , she could tell that something was wrong with her father … with everything . |
| 20 | It was the same thin , intelligent slightly wary face and as far as she could tell the same old Barbour jacket . |
| 21 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 22 | A large bird , a crow as far as she could tell , flapped up from picking at something on the ground and wheeled away high above her . |
| 23 | But it had n't flowered and as far as she could tell , had no intention of doing so . |
| 24 | They thought she might be having a baby , and if she really wanted to hurt them she could tell them she might be . |
| 25 | I suppose this was originally to give a sterile wife a period of grace — she could tell her husband she was pregnant but owing to the machinations of some female rival , the child was ‘ asleep ’ . ’ |
| 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 | Even in the dark , she could tell that he was disappointed . |
| 28 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 29 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 30 | Beyond this there was little of importance which she could tell and Dalgliesh had briefly heard her story and let her go . |