Example sentences of "[vb infin] guessed from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could never have guessed from his enquiries that the matter was somewhat uncongenial to him . |
| 2 | You would never have guessed from the way the Parsons talked that they were childless . |
| 3 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 4 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 5 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 6 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 7 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , I must apologise for dragging you in here at such short notice , but as you will have guessed from the Meeting Notice the urgency … ’ |
| 9 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 10 | Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years . |