Example sentences of "you could [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings . |
| 2 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 3 | He took a deep breath , " I was thinking , " he said slowly , conscious of her arms still round his waist ( no ; one hand went to her brow , smoothed her hair away from her eyes ; there , though , it went back again , clasped lightly behind him ! ) , " about … whether you could tell from the wine on the inside of a shoe what type it was . |
| 4 | We can , we can put it all under one roof , and the d the design came out er good erm so that you could walk from the end of the , the machine shop was extended and you could walk from there into the catapult shop directly , or straight into the er fitting base , and thence down onto the welding sections . |
| 5 | You could paddle out from the right alongside a rock jetty , or you could go from the left . |
| 6 | Yeah , on the appointment you could get from the solicitor was |
| 7 | He hated the smell and the noise of the drill you could hear from the treatment room . |
| 8 | And the Royal Welch did sing in the rehearsal , it was a record of course , and they sang of what you could see from the hills above Jerusalem , and it was in the minor key and sad as the devil or death , and the green light flickered , and Dylan , short , bandy , prime , obese , and famous among the bars , screamed as I have never heard , but sometimes imagined a scream , and we were all appalled , our pencils silent above the crossword puzzles , and invisible centuries-gone atavistic hair rose on our backs . |