Example sentences of "could say about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 3 | Erm , just if I could say about the , there 's something next week also about the ambulance . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | That inexcusable act probably speaks with greater clarity than anything I could say about his true character . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If that was all he could say about something which , to her , had transcended all the experiences of her life … |
| 11 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |