Example sentences of "can tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose they can tell you something . |
| 2 | All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self . |
| 3 | And her only words to him are : Now you are free to tell that you have seen me all unrobed — if you can tell ! |
| 4 | ‘ You can tell that , ’ said Arabella Buckley , ‘ to the Marines . ’ |
| 5 | And I can tell you why . |
| 6 | I simply heard the scream and went out and looked down — Bert can tell you . ’ |
| 7 | Sir William and her Ladyship have been noticing things , I can tell you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we 'd never have called France ‘ gallant ’ , I can tell you . |
| 9 | You can tell us what they think of Il Duce . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Anything that I can tell you , Inspector , I will , but my acquaintanceship with Mrs Iverson in the event was brief . ’ |
| 11 | You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’ |
| 12 | Your doctor or the local Family Health Services Authority can tell you about the services available . |
| 13 | You can tell what a person 's like from their lines — you make your face . ’ |
| 14 | You can tell we 're English , she thought that evening as they sat four tables apart in the dining room , books propped against their separate water jugs . |
| 15 | ‘ Who can tell ? |
| 16 | ‘ You can tell a young man nothing . |
| 17 | As Fergus Campbell has suggested , if the ERP can tell us whether or not the subject has seen a light , it takes the psycho out of psychophysics . |
| 18 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 19 | Changes in electrical activity of the brain are associated with changes in the level and content of consciousness : you can tell whether someone is asleep or awake by looking at his electro-encephalogram . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's all right , you can tell mammy when we get home . |
| 21 | You can tell when you 're drinking if beers have been ‘ spammed up ’ . |
| 22 | I can tell when he is having a hypo because he gets disorientated and confused . |
| 23 | My dear chap , a different path lies before each man and no one of us can tell what road he may chance to follow . ’ |
| 24 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 25 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 26 | But Mr Bullock said : ‘ I can tell you that the name belongs to us . ’ |
| 27 | Mr de Klerk 's main criterion , as far as one can tell , in deciding who is released first is to attempt to minimise the chances of mass political gatherings giving way to violence and , the great nightmare , loss of government control . |
| 28 | While on the subject of meat , we can tell you that the competition to find the best-made sausages in the UK gets under way this Sunday with the defending champion reported to be in sizzling form . |
| 29 | You can tell her priorities from a glance at the obituary columns . |
| 30 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |