Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't tell you if Mrs Iverson had any port . ’ |
| 2 | And here the manuscript fragment ends , so we ca n't tell how much work lies behind such simple touches as Stepan 's fear that ‘ they ’ will flog him . |
| 3 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how grateful I 'd be . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Come on now , you know I ca n't tell you that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know the type so I ca n't tell . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't tell you here , ’ Bodo muttered , with more than a touch of impatience . |
| 8 | If you ca n't tell what is a racist film and what is not , you should n't be in charge of a festival in the first place . |
| 9 | In all conscience , I ca n't tell my staff that everything 's all right . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Things you ca n't tell people about . ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't tell you . |
| 12 | ‘ We received information , I 'm afraid I ca n't tell you how at present , that Zambia is , in fact , in hiding at Acropolis Park . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't tell till he 's on a racecourse . ’ |
| 15 | But the whole thing was so thoroughly thought out , you really ca n't tell . ’ |
| 16 | Do you know , I ca n't tell where I end and you begin ? |
| 17 | And it was penetrating — I ca n't tell you how penetrating — and wet ; it got into all the corners . |
| 18 | I ca n't tell you how much pleasure it would give us to make them eat their words . |
| 19 | ‘ We know we can get the inhibitor genes into a cell but we ca n't tell whether we 'll be able to produce this inhibitor efficiently enough until we test it . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't tell you all the details yet , ’ Mould explained . |
| 21 | I ca n't tell you what 's going on in my head . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't tell from this distance . ’ |
| 23 | It 's a nice reason but I ca n't tell you now . |
| 24 | ‘ Time and again , they said things like : ‘ I ca n't tell my Mum because she would n't believe me ’ or ‘ I told another teacher but I just got told off for telling lies ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Ca n't tell boys from girls ’ has been the typical whine from reporters when faced by any new youth group . |
| 26 | I could n't really blame him , as most horses are suspicious of water at first , especially when they ca n't tell how deep it is . |
| 27 | I ca n't tell the difference between being hungry and wanting food ; |
| 28 | I ca n't tell him now — not the way things are at present . ’ |
| 29 | She said mark well , you just ca n't tell |
| 30 | ‘ Companies ca n't tell you how many machines they have so how can they possibly protect them ? ’ said Ronald Berg , of the Scandia risk-management company in Sweden . |