Example sentences of "[pers pn] can tell a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Ma , silly bugger or not , I can tell a piece when I see her , or smell her , and this one is n't wor Robbie 's type , nor none of our types . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I can tell a smoker 's hair since it is more dull and lacks the sheen of a non-smoker . |
| 3 | I can tell a real man when I see one , believe me . |
| 4 | I can tell a race when I see one . |
| 5 | ‘ You can tell a young man nothing . |
| 6 | Tony always says that you can tell a happy motorcyclist by the flies on his teeth . |
| 7 | His latest joke is that you can tell a happy musher by the dog shit on his teeth . |
| 8 | ‘ Music that 's right for the time , ’ butts in drummer John ( yes , the drummer — you can tell a band is going places when even the stick-head looks good and demands to have his say ) . |
| 9 | But I think he 's lovely , and you can tell a mile off that he likes you . |
| 10 | They used to say you can tell a man by the shoes he wears . |
| 11 | ‘ Camilla believes that you can tell a great deal about a nation by its lavatory habits . ’ |
| 12 | You can tell a horse in this condition without actually trying to back him . |
| 13 | This means that we can tell a star 's temperature from the spectrum of its light . ) |
| 14 | We can tell a lot about all the characters in ‘ Great Expectations ’ from their first appearances in the novel . |
| 15 | The young regulars come to a station and they think they can tell a reserve man what to do . |
| 16 | potential employers feel they can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting . |
| 17 | People feel they can tell a lot from a handshake and they are quite right . |
| 18 | When a woman looks in the mirror , she sees the totality of her being : because of the social brainwashing to which she has been subjected , the mirror seems to tell her more than it can tell a man . |