Example sentences of "could only tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 2 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 3 | The stewards inquired into his running but Richard Dunwoody could only tell them that the favourite was ‘ never going . |
| 4 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 5 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 6 | And her identical twin sister Anne could only tell she was sobbing by her trembling chin . |