Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could swear that he told me he did n't know ! |
| 2 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 3 | I could swear that some of them actually wanted the police to find a body . |
| 4 | A few moments ago I could swear that you did n't hate me . ’ |
| 5 | I could picture that : a Technicolor sunrise , and three singing sailors swarming through the docks . |
| 6 | And it occurred to me , I could make that a , a little nature reserve , very small , but erm rather like nature reserves that the Trust look after , and so erm I negotiated with the farmer |
| 7 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 8 | I could check that she had begun to get her divorce at about the time of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 9 | That was the only way I could check that no one else was on your tail . ’ |
| 10 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 11 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 12 | myself , I could feel that the order |
| 13 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 14 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 15 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 16 | Well I know that my colleague Joanna Innes wants to comment on this , but if I could answer that immediately , I think there is a question about how you define what the major problem is . |
| 17 | I could hope that they 'll leave before dessert , she thought bitterly , as Melissa 's affected laugh rang in her ear for the fourth time . |
| 18 | If anything , I suppose I could complain that you 've tried to take her from me — but I do n't blame you for that . |
| 19 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 20 | The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel . ’ |
| 21 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 22 | Apart from the age of the property , I could tell that the bathroom wc of our refit had undergone some previous modernisation : the old high-level Burlington bell cistern had long been removed . |
| 23 | I could tell that this was a big event in her life . |
| 24 | I could tell that my questioning was slowly turning off the taps of their charm . |
| 25 | He had told me he was going all the way to Stornoway and I could tell that it was quite an event . |
| 26 | They were Asian ones — I could tell that from the label , but he said that Asians had one more ( or was it one less ? ) toe than the Indian ones and different ears . |
| 27 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 28 | Actors like him have a system of playing through something , and , between us , I could tell that he was n't finding that something . |
| 29 | Even from the shore I could tell that it had half strangled itself in a length of fishing line ; it was also hooked up in several places and carrying some heavy land weights . |
| 30 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |