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 | But she could hardly tell him that ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |