Example sentences of "you could say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could say their success was based on the ‘ throw-up factor ’ . |
| 2 | Everybody had a secret identity , so you could say what you liked and nobody knew who you really were . |
| 3 | Yeah , you could say what it looked like and what was happening and then say , Well I 'm not quite sure what the convention is for writing them |
| 4 | Erm , so you could say what does the psychological agency , the ego , do ? |
| 5 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 6 | Now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this . |
| 7 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 8 | No , I do n't think you could say they were engaged . |
| 9 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 10 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 11 | But most of the women over there they , you could say they 're , they 're by the age of , of childbearing |
| 12 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 13 | ‘ You could say they have suffered a technical knee in the groin , ’ Mr Blackburn told a news conference in London . |
| 14 | They are the leaders of the Vauxhall League division two south , so I suppose you could say they dropped two points today ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two , our reporter , Nick Quayle . |
| 15 | Because , I mean , you could say something wonderful etc etc |
| 16 | You could say something here at the top of Rita 's point that . |
| 17 | ‘ You could say we were into real estate now . ’ |
| 18 | Instead , generous Shane said : ‘ You could say we 're lucky it was she who abducted her . |
| 19 | I suppose you could say we sort of adopted each other , as neither of us had any real brothers and sisters . |
| 20 | You could say we should agree with our sums . |
| 21 | You could say there 's some room for rationalisation , ’ says Nissan 's British importer . |
| 22 | Wh what , well , I , I would n't say just looking similar , I would say additionally looking , but , but in the , in the early days the erm , and I 'll be saying something about this in the , in the lectures , bu but just briefly , that you could you could say there were phases in psychoanalysis , the early days , before both of us were born you were here , the , the aim when the method was , the aim was to release the unconscious , bring it to the surface , and that was regarded as more or less enough . |
| 23 | Now you take all those , take Street and Street , they were all very respectable people and er I do n't think you could say there were any slums about at all as far as I can remember . |
| 24 | He 's dead nice , Mr Fleming , just treats you like an adult ; see once you 're in the Sixth Year , you could say Anything to him . |
| 25 | Cos otherwise you could say anything could n't you ? |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose you could say I am playing to my peers . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Overall I suppose you could say I specialise in general gardening ! ’ |
| 28 | I suppose you could say I found the Goddess . ’ |
| 29 | You could say I meant it as a gesture . |
| 30 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |