Example sentences of "could tell [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when she looked upon him she could not but believe that his sincere eyes could tell no lie . |
| 2 | New Scientist , in the teeth of silence from Whitehall , said that HMS Sheffield was destroyed because its radar could tell no difference between its own Sea Harriers and Argentinian Super Etendards . |
| 3 | You could tell a broiler what they call them er fowls . |
| 4 | If those knees could tell a story it would probably be an angry diatribe against the paparazzi . |
| 5 | I could tell a story about political tendencies , children , employment , poetry , unemployment , history ; I could say , for instance : |
| 6 | ‘ In the sixteenth century , doctors thought they could tell a person 's health by looking into their eyes — I like to see a man 's soul ’ ; such souls as he finds in the Saracen 's Head and other pubs . |
| 7 | Very handy with a hip flask , but did n't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault . |
| 8 | It walked sideways on its perch and hunched its shoulders , looking slyly up at her as though it could tell a tale or two , if it chose . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I was outraged they thought they could tell a bookseller what to do . |
| 10 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 11 | The light was an intense green and she could tell the passage of sun and seasons above her . |
| 12 | You could tell the day |
| 13 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 14 | area , they could tell by the hills , they could tell the way . |
| 15 | I could tell the tutor I got scent of it before the system went down yesterday … . |
| 16 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 17 | Or I could tell the story behind the papers , a chronology in which I described the sequence of experiments as we actually conducted them . |
| 18 | Robyn could tell the minute she met their curious glances . |
| 19 | You could tell the system to delay sending the faxes until , say midnight , when fax lines are likely to be quiet as well as cheap . |
| 20 | My Lord , first of all can I just ask whether you could tell the jury something about the training of firearms officers ? |
| 21 | I did n't ask if they could tell the sex yet , because I do n't want to know . |
| 22 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 23 | He says you get to know a hedgehog — and I could tell the director what an animal was going to do … |
| 24 | Some of the signs , such as the quantity of berries on certain trees in autumn were for long-range forecasts , while still others could tell the weather for that very hour : ( The Shamrock is folding its garments before a heavy downpour ) is not only a picturesque saying but tends also to be accurate . |
| 25 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 26 | ‘ Well for a start , madam , you could tell the captain . |
| 27 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 28 | There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth . |
| 29 | He could tell the truth but not all the truth . |
| 30 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |