Example sentences of "have said [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have said that their way of life would slowly become less and less glamorous , more and more morally debilitating . |
| 2 | This time yesterday I would have said that what had happened last night was a laughable impossibility . |
| 3 | Euripides would probably have said that what Aeschylus did was wrong because he did it unconsciously . |
| 4 | Had you asked me that question ten or fifteen years ago , I 'd be mildly embarrassed , because I would have said that we took a very rigid attitude , where we insisted that people work full-time . |
| 5 | He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election . |
| 6 | If it had been anyone else the Direktor would also have said that there was something a little pathetic about her . |
| 7 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 8 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 9 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 10 | Had she been asked , Britain would have said that she thought " dissolution " was much further off than it was in the mind of the tsar . |
| 11 | But as she sat beside Ven Gajdusek while the car rolled silently downhill and into Mariánské Láznë , and she recovered her normally even temper , she could n't have said that she was too put out by the experience . |
| 12 | If I had n't known otherwise I would have said that he meant every word of it . |
| 13 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 14 | Dr Tariq would not have said that he liked the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , but he admired him . |
| 15 | He would have said that he was as courageous as most , but he knew that no one ever escaped from the workshops . |
| 16 | He would have said that he had as reasonable an acquaintance with sorcery as anyone in Ireland . |
| 17 | He had not budged , and if she had n't known better she would have said that he was jealous , but , of course , the idea was ridiculous . |
| 18 | If Paul Lexington were describing the situation , he would undoubtedly have said that he had some good news and some bad news . |
| 19 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 20 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 21 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 22 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 23 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |