How to determine a persons preferred sensory channel for input

If you are paying attention, the person will give you clues through their language and through their behaviour.

Common verbal clues and phrases

Visual Auditory Kinaesthetic Unspecified
See Hear Fell Sense
Look Listen Touch Experience
View Sounds Grasp Understand
Appear Make music Get hold of Think
Show Harmonize Slip through Learn
Dawn Tune in/out Catch on Process
Reveal Be all ears Tap into Decide
Envision Rings a bell Make contact Motivate
Illuminate Silence Throw out Consider
Imagine Be heard Turn around Change
Clear Resonate Hard Perceive
Foggy Deaf Unfeeling Insensitive
Focused Loud Concrete Distinct
Hazy Melody Get a handle on Know
Picture Unhearing Solid

Phrases

Visual Auditory Kinaesthetic
An eyeful Afterthought All washed up
Appears to me Blabbermouth Boils down to
Beyond a shadow of a doubt Call on Chip off the old block
Birds eye view Clear as a bell Come to grips with
Catch a glimpse of Clearly expressed Control yourself
Clear cut Describe in detail Cool/calm/collected
Dim view Earful Firm foundations
Flashed on Enquire into Get a handle on
Get a perspective on Give me your ear Get a load of this
Get a scope on Give you a call Get in touch with
Hazy idea Given amount of Get the drift of
In light of Grant an audience Get your back up
In person Heard voices Hand in hand
In view of Hidden message Hand in there
Looks like Hold your tongue Heated argument
Make a scene Ideal talk Hold it
Mental image Keynote speaker Hold on
Mental picture Loud and clear Hot head
Mind’s eye Manner of speaking Keep your shirt on
Naked eye Pay attention to Lay cards on the table
Paint a picture Power of speech Pain in the neck
See to it State your purpose Pull some strings
Short sighted To tell the truth Sharp as a tack
Showing off Tongue tied Slipped my mind
Sight for sore eyes Tuned in/tuned out Smooth operator
Staring off into space Unheard of So-so
Take a peek Utterly Start from scratch
Tunnel vision Voiced an opinion Stiff upper lip
Under your nose Well informed Stuffed shirt
Up front Within hearing Too much hassle
Well defined Word for word Topsy turvey