Example sentences of "say that [pron] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 2 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 3 | Never saw , you were n't meant to , and he says , no your mum said that we could either have a sweet or a starter , not both . |
| 4 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 5 | Lord Donaldson said that he could now break the traditional silence of judges about their colleagues and ‘ give voice to the anger and disgust which we have felt at the campaign of calumny waged against you in recent months ’ . |
| 6 | They used to say that he could almost make a horse fly . ’ |
| 7 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 8 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |