Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] tell [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
| 2 | As as students in a lecture you can tell when a lecturer is nervous . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It could tell quite a story , that pool , ’ said Robins . |
| 5 | He knew the flood was coming last autumn and sometimes he can tell where a wire 's been set . |