Example sentences of "say [adv] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything . |
| 2 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 3 | Buckingham Palace is saying only that there could be other engagements which have not yet been fixed up . |
| 4 | Her mother , who had been fading hitherto , returned to fill the black hole by the kitchen sink or to confront Helen on the stairs , saying smugly that she could have told her all along what to expect . |
| 5 | Police said yesterday that they could find no motive for the murder of 11-year-old Tasleen Akhtar , whose body was found in an alley near her home in Sparkhill , Birmingham . |
| 6 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 7 | PAKISTAN captain Imran Khan ( left ) said yesterday that he could miss this summer 's tour to England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 8 | You said yesterday that I could n't speak first . |
| 9 | Mr Stan Hardy , the league 's new director-general , said yesterday that anybody could ask for material that may be held on them . |
| 10 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 11 | Let me say here that nothing could be further from the truth . |