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there + to be + no telling — it is impossible to know 1. You could never tell they might have other children. (J. Braine) 2. You could never really tell what Magda was thinking — her face in repose was blank. (D. Cusack) 3. Charles could not tell who spoke. (J. Wain) 4. But Weston said that from the outside you never could tell with T. B.'s. (D. Cusack) 5. There's no telling what may happen. (A. S. Hornby) (9) now (that) — as; considering that 1. ... now you are in, you may never get out of this chamber of horrors. (A. Cronin) 2. Wormold knew that nothing he could say would check the eloquence of his assistant, now that he had embarked on the great Havana subject. (Gr. Greene) 82
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