Example sentences of "[vb mod] tell how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell how I stopped him . |
| 2 | He 'd tell how sandhill cranes migrated to Sulphur Springs Valley each fall , or deliver a short lecture on the vast dance circles and power rings in the tierra del muerto . |
| 3 | Perhaps he could tell how he was , or where ? |
| 4 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 5 | Her work was too unconventional for immediate popular acceptance , but Cameron could tell how good she was , and was supportive even when she was discouraged . |
| 6 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
| 7 | No one could tell how many people had died there , just that people had been killed . |
| 8 | So , by measuring the height of the sun , they could tell how far north or south of the Equator ( an imaginary line round the middle of the earth ) they were . |
| 9 | The catastrophe had evidently relaxed Willis 's habitual control , and he had spoken from the heart , but who could tell how much else survived ? |
| 10 | Who could tell how far she would go ? |
| 11 | My granny would tell how her mother , Jane Blackley , née Sharp , would bring a basket of potatoes , eggs and ham , or how my grandfather and his brother-in-law operated an illicit mine and sold the coal to local farmers on the sly , for there were young children to be fed . |
| 12 | My grandfather would tell how he and some village musicians persuaded a local sympathiser to part with a lorry with which they toured round Scotland to raise money for the village . |
| 13 | ‘ This will tell how in those far-off days , I , as a little girl , with many times an empty tummy , found the time to dance … |
| 14 | Time will tell how this course can best be adapted to serve Christ at the end of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Time will tell how well these twin goals work together . |
| 16 | However time will tell how easy and/or pleasant they are to use . |
| 17 | The short answer is that there are too many imponderables for a neatly overall prediction , and only time will tell how far into the future a given photograph or negative is likely to survive . |
| 18 | The thermal shock of zero degrees water is so intense no one can tell how pleased you are to see them . |
| 19 | No one can tell how they got here . ’ |
| 20 | And no-one can tell how well he 's going . |
| 21 | With practice you can tell how long a site has been vacant by studying its flora , although the exact species vary from town to town . |
| 22 | For example , you can tell how you prefer to enter your tension details ( the number of stitches and rows to ten centimetres or to four inches or to one inch and so on . ) |
| 23 | YOU can tell how serious is the crisis within the Republican party — they 've persuaded Barbara Bush to have a new hairdo … |
| 24 | Only time can tell how news media will have to adapt to the demands which loom ahead , but that 's little comfort to an organisation plagued with financial problems and worries . |
| 25 | Now you can tell how well developed an organ is in two ways : either by seeing how big it is , or by feeling the heat it generates . |
| 26 | You can tell how lively they are by the fact that they work not in great white north-lit drawing-offices , like the more fashionable and established groups , but in a few cramped rooms on the fourth floor of an Edwardian commercial block , above a tobacconist and an employment agency , mostly looking out on an airwell . |
| 27 | Any experienced masseur can tell how often , as they release muscle tension , tears are shed . |
| 28 | You can tell how close I was and he was facing me . ’ |
| 29 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 30 | You can tell how preoccupied they are , when two dykes settle for old chestnuts by the seventeenth-century male metaphysicals . |