Example sentences of "could [adv] tell [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 2 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 3 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 4 | But she could hardly tell him that ! |
| 5 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 6 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 7 | She did , of course , but she could n't tell him that . |
| 8 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 9 | I I could n't tell you that . |
| 10 | Er my favourite thing er well I could n't tell you that . |
| 11 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |