Example sentences of "he could say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government .
2 That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier .
3 The rest of Europe said yes ; the best that he could say for Britain was maybe .
4 And all he could say to them was !
5 If that was all he could say about something which , to her , had transcended all the experiences of her life …
6 There was nothing more he could say in the way of argument , so he decided to plague her other address with mail .
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