Example sentences of "they could tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was outraged they thought they could tell a bookseller what to do . |
| 3 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 4 | He is one of the select band of teachers ( including Dick and Macqueen ) of whom it was said that they could tell if a horse was lame , merely by listening . |
| 5 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 6 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 7 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 8 | Perhaps they could tell him where I will be working . ’ |
| 9 | They asked how they could tell other parents the anti-opt-out reasons he gave and he suggested they produce a leaflet . |
| 10 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 11 | The families ' lawyer , Ann Alexander , called on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents so they could tell her ‘ why the decision not to have a full public inquiry is wrong ’ . |
| 12 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 13 | They could tell by what was being fired at them . |
| 14 | I went through the reception , and I was shaking ; I mean I did n't need to tell them I was on drugs , they could tell the drugs were on me . |
| 15 | area , they could tell by the hills , they could tell the way . |
| 16 | area , they could tell by the hills , they could tell the way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | As far as they could tell , it was the only thing which existed here , wherever " here " was , Everything else was snow ; the white plain . |
| 20 | As far as they could tell , the writing , by a ballpoint , was Egan 's . |
| 21 | Cormack had run up the stairs , not taking the lift because he knew from films they could tell which floor you got off at by the lights above the door . |
| 22 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 23 | And then writing back to this contact i either in New York or in Virginia or wherever it was , saying that it th they would give him the dimensions of the roof , that they could tell him exactly how many slates they 'd need to cover it . |
| 24 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 25 | They caught a glimpse of his robe in the candlelight , but only a glimpse because then he moved into the shadows and it was only by Mordecai 's gestures that they could tell where he was . |
| 26 | Four out of five wanted to see quantities of main ingredients so that they could tell , for example , how much fruit there is in a fruit jam or how much fish in a fish finger . |
| 27 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 28 | I did n't ask if they could tell the sex yet , because I do n't want to know . |
| 29 | As it turned out , she was able to tell the experts more than they could tell her . |
| 30 | They 'd decided they could tell me , they could trust me . |