Example sentences of "you could tell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was singing a love song , you could tell by the eyebrows . |
| 6 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |