Example sentences of "[pers pn] certainly could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well ’ Louise laughed , ‘ you certainly could n't be mistaken for anything other than Nora Simpson 's daughter , there 's no doubt about that , but to be fair , my sweet , you 've both had a lot to contend with . |
| 2 | And they certainly could n't be called poor , living in this house . |
| 3 | They certainly could n't be overheard , but in that crowd anybody could be watching them . |
| 4 | Perhaps this is true of some farmers , but it certainly could n't be said of Small 's enterprise . |
| 5 | It certainly could n't be physical . |
| 6 | But it certainly could not be said of the master-manufacturers that theirs was the whisper of a faction , nor of the unions in their post-1832 revolutionary phase that theirs was the voice of the nation . |