Example sentences of "she could [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious .
3 He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry .
4 It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again .
5 She could tell from the small lumps of matter floating on its vermilion surface .
6 She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered .
7 She obeyed and he watched with still , dark eyes until she was as far as she could get from the trembling animal .
8 All he or she could remove from the account would be his or her commission and expenses .
9 She could see from the screen displays how the systems were designed to function .
10 The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions .
11 Worse still , she had married into a life so public that at times she felt there was no place on earth where she could escape from the prying eyes .
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