Example sentences of "could tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could tell at a glance whether the job was done or not . |
| 2 | The idea is that people on the street could tell at a glance that I 'm a proctor , which of course only the more informed of them can . |
| 3 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His face seemed to show nothing except benevolent interest , but Julia could tell from the way that he was carrying his head and a certain tension in his body that they were approaching a crisis point . |
| 6 | Beside her Kim was struggling to hide his feelings , but Lan could tell from the paleness of his face that he was apprehensive and on edge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Maggie could tell from the expression on Mr Sanderson 's face that much thought had gone into this . |
| 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 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 11 | He could tell from the sound that it was an army Lynx , not one of the SAS Augustas . |
| 12 | I could tell from the amount of condensed milk which Duncan dripped into his Queen 's Jubilee china mug that he had a hangover . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I could tell from the fear on his face he was not joking . ’ |
| 15 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 16 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 17 | She could tell by the way he ground out his cigarette on the floor . |
| 18 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |
| 19 | She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her . |
| 20 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |
| 21 | I could tell by the tone of her voice : Mrs F could see it too . |
| 22 | All he could distinguish was the sound rather than the words , but he could tell by the tone of her voice that Senga was n't taking it in . |
| 23 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 24 | I could tell by the expression on your faces when only I felt |
| 25 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 26 | Patrick could tell by the change in his tone of voice that he was talking to a woman . |
| 27 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 28 | The doughmen could tell by the feel of the dough , and by the sound that it made during mixing , if it was too dry or too wet , and add small amounts of required ingredients to compensate . |
| 29 | He could tell by the quality of patience in her sigh as she began to lick the sweat from his shoulder-blades . |
| 30 | I could tell by the quality of her alarm , which was actressy and overdone . |