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Example sentences for "can tell"

  • She's some pace-maker, I can tell you," said Julius complacently.

  • That's the alternative--and you won't like it, I can tell you!

  • He went into oil, and he went into steel, and he played a bit with railroads, and I can tell you he made Wall Street sit up!

  • Yes, she died, but she suffered for a long time, and we were fairly knocked up with her, I can tell you.

  • We did catch it, I can tell you, when Aleksei Petrovich came to hear about us!

  • I can tell you, my boy, we had quite enough of those dare-devil Chechenes.

  • She has the best advice, I can tell you; the very first doctors in Paris; only this morning they had a consultation.

  • There are serious allegations, I can tell you.

  • All that I can tell you is that these people expect some difficulty in bringing the matter to a conclusion.

  • I am angry all over, I can tell you," said the boy, and then in hurried, excited words he told all that had happened.

  • You who never had a check-rein on don't know what it is, but I can tell you it is dreadful.

  • And I can tell you he is to go to no such a place,' replied the aunt.

  • I am heartily glad of it,' said I, passing the bottle, 'because that is about all I can tell you.

  • Why, I believe I can tell a Frenchman in ten words.

  • I can tell you," he cried, "who Chichikov is!

  • It's a worse crisis than you think for, I can tell you.

  • How master bore the news, when he first heard it, is more than I can tell, not having been present.

  • The marked peculiarity which singles him out from the rank and file of humanity lies entirely, so far as I can tell at present, in the extraordinary expression and extraordinary power of his eyes.

  • I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels--none if she remains at home.

  • In two short days he has made his way straight into my favourable estimation, and how he has worked the miracle is more than I can tell.

  • For two months past I have been thinking of many things, I can tell you.

  • And if you only employ me in the service of the law and the police, by the end of a year you will be satisfied with all I can tell you.

  • And it is a hard job, I can tell you; it will take as much pulling to get your artillery through as it took the first Consul to get over the Alps.

  • The goodly Sheriff has long desired to see me; and mayhap he can tell me tidings of the best quarter-staff in the shire"--meaning Little John.

  • Awaiting your audience--he and four of his men, likewise a lady of whose wooing and wedding I can tell you a pretty story at another time.

  • Belike he can tell us how the land ties, and if Stutely be really in jeopardy.

  • I am more than a little anxious myself, I can tell you.

  • One thing I can tell you, my dear girl--I have used my eyes to very little purpose if there is not a storm brewing tonight in Mr. Noel Vanstone's domestic atmosphere.

  • I hardly know how I can tell her of it at all.

  • I have reasons (which I can tell you at a fitter time) for feeling assured that she has gone away with the intention of trying her fortune on the stage.

  • All I can tell you is, that my father was the salvation of that young officer under very dreadful circumstances.

  • I was relieved to get your letter, I can tell you," she said at last.

  • Well, sir, I can tell you, on my side, that there isn't a slipperier rascal unhung in America than Milton K.

  • I saw him today for the first time, and he can tell you on what occasion; he came to demand the rent of my lodging.

  • Very inconvenient, upon my word; and you hurt me devilishly, I can tell you.

  • Tis a great favour, I can tell you; the place is sacred.

  • And I can tell you, child, that when George Austin was playing Florizel to the Duchess's Perdita, all the maids in England fell a prey to green- eyed melancholy.

  • He's one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you.

  • Nay, you shall find no boy's play here, I can tell you.

  • Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my humour; as well as waiting in the Court, I can tell you.

  • The King, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must away all, to-night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    can get; can help; can only; can take; candied lemon; canine teeth; cannabis and opium poppy; canned fruit; cannot bear; cannot but; cannot comprehend; cannot consent; cannot deny; cannot even; cannot explain; cannot help; cannot live; cannot make; cannot represent; cannot save; cannot see; canto fermo; dollar figure; keen look; perpetual peace; six months