Example sentences of "could say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must now be asked if the same could said in the mid-1980s . |
| 2 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 3 | The French delegation led by M. Jean Arrivetz of FACS stressed the desirability of using a mnemonic one could say as a word . |
| 4 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 5 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 6 | Erm , just if I could say about the , there 's something next week also about the ambulance . |
| 7 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 8 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 9 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 10 | The most a discourse analyst could say about a discourse fragment such as the sentence in ( 8 ) above is that Mary is potentially part of the topic of the discourse in which ( 8 ) occurred , but more information is required , as indeed is also the case for both extracts ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) . |
| 11 | That inexcusable act probably speaks with greater clarity than anything I could say about his true character . |
| 12 | But if anybody refuses to believe that about 270 B.C. Lycophron could say about the Romans : " And the fame of the race of my ancestors shall thereafter be exalted to the highest by their descendants who shall with their spears win the foremost crown of glory , obtaining the sceptre and monarchy of earth and sea " ( transl . |
| 13 | If that was all he could say about something which , to her , had transcended all the experiences of her life … |
| 14 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |
| 15 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 16 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 17 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 18 | If we could say with certainty that they are , then , it seems , we would already know the answer to the problem as to the possibility of a numerical diversity of ontological existents . |
| 19 | As the prophet Jesus could say with authority , ‘ Amen , amen I say unto you , ’ and claim to speak final truth about God , ‘ We speak of what we know , and bear witness of what we have seen ’ ( John 3:11 ) . |
| 20 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 21 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 22 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 23 | ‘ And all the guy could say to me was , ‘ We ca n't have gambling ! ’ |
| 24 | When Zuwaya held a wedding or a funeral , when men met in a shaikh 's house to discuss reprisals or bloodwealth , they could say to themselves , ‘ This is how we have always done things . ’ |
| 25 | If God could say to Paul ‘ my power is made perfect in weakness ’ ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 ) , the same holds true for you . |
| 26 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 27 | ‘ Katherine , I could say to you , that is none of your business . |
| 28 | Afshar suggested , " Your Majesty , time will tell , but you could say to him " If you try to sit on two stills , you will fall between . " " |
| 29 | There was no more we could say to each other except through the damned lawyers . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's very beautiful , ’ was all that McAllister could say to that . |