Example sentences of "could tell [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Maggie could tell from the expression on Mr Sanderson 's face that much thought had gone into this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | He could tell from the sound that it was an army Lynx , not one of the SAS Augustas . |
| 10 | I could tell from the amount of condensed milk which Duncan dripped into his Queen 's Jubilee china mug that he had a hangover . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I could tell from the fear on his face he was not joking . ’ |
| 13 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She could tell by the way he ground out his cigarette on the floor . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I could tell by the tone of her voice : Mrs F could see it too . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 22 | I could tell by the expression on your faces when only I felt |
| 23 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 24 | Patrick could tell by the change in his tone of voice that he was talking to a woman . |
| 25 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He could tell by the quality of patience in her sigh as she began to lick the sweat from his shoulder-blades . |
| 28 | I could tell by the quality of her alarm , which was actressy and overdone . |
| 29 | She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house . |
| 30 | He looked calmly , almost — as far as she could tell in the light that poured from the house onto the terrace — amusedly at her . |