Example sentences of "could [adv] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 2 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 3 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 4 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 5 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I really could n't say about that . ’ |
| 7 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 8 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Just could n't say with any certainty . ’ |
| 10 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 11 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 12 | I could n't say for certain what our smallest listed building is , but I suspect that some old wall-mounted pillar boxes will be strong candidates ! |
| 13 | He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly . |
| 14 | ‘ Could n't say for sure . ’ |
| 15 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 16 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 17 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 18 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
| 19 | It seemed to Harry that there was nothing he could usefully say to this bewildering and terrifying man , and indeed that he was not required to speak . |