Example sentences of "could say [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thérèse 's first word was Rose , and by the time she was eighteen months old she could say cow , apple , duck , cake , dog . |
| 2 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 3 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 4 | So we could say total , total is three pound sixty or something like that . |
| 5 | Even Bevan reckoned that if the Labour Party were to campaign on a programme fully reflecting the aspirations of the rank and file party activists ‘ we could say goodbye to any Labour government being elected again in Britain' . |
| 6 | This was fun ; with any luck she could say goodbye to facials , mud-packs and manicures . |
| 7 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 8 | An anguished groan escaped her , the certain knowledge hers that both she and Cara could say goodbye to that interview for ever if she breathed a word of the truth to him . |
| 9 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 10 | So fraction of a circle fraction of a circle this is going to be one third times three sixty or we could say number of degrees here , fraction of a circle as number of degrees . |
| 11 | I do n't think one could say policy , no . |
| 12 | I do n't think one could say policy , no erm I think the move in this direction is a drift really . |
| 13 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 14 | ‘ We could say great-granny was American . |
| 15 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 16 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 17 | Aged eighteen months , Léonie read aloud : the little one could say maman , baby , non , I want , bonjour , cat , maison . |