Example sentences of "not be able say " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 2 | Counsel in support of the application this morning has not been able to say that that claim or allegation has been abandoned . |
| 3 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 4 | We may not be able to say no to those people ourselves , because we imagine that they are as susceptible and sensitive to rejection as we are . |
| 5 | IT IS probable that , unless your particular county was involved , you will not be able to say which county won the Refuge Assurance League of 1988 or 1990 , to take two years at random . |
| 6 | They shall not be able to say it . |
| 7 | For example , a defendant will presumably not be able to say that he injured the complainant intending to have sexual intercourse with her but she then consented . |
| 8 | The teapot , milk jug , sugar basin and tongs will require cleaning with Goddard 's powder before midday , so that all will be proper , and the visitors will not be able to say that this house is a slum inside , even if there is one outside . ’ |
| 9 | Socio-economic status is one such property where we can classify individuals as having " more " or " less " status but not be able to say how much more or how much less status one person has with respect to another . |
| 10 | ‘ I may not be able to say very much to the mother and her kids , but I sympathise with them so much because of what my own family went through , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Another example of giving in is not being able to say ‘ No ’ . |
| 12 | It did n't need much concentration , and all through the morning I kept getting interrupted by the thought of Oliver standing there not being able to say anything , and then practically shouting what he did . |
| 13 | I have to carry my tetanus card so that if I was er injured and unconscious and not being able to say that I 've had the horse serum , the doctor thinking , Oh look look he 's got lots of soil in that cut , er give him a quick injection of the horse serum , that could actually be fatal . |
| 14 | and me not being able to say the word basically |
| 15 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 16 | They would n't be able to say I was having sex with you then , not if you were n't here . |
| 17 | ‘ But then he wo n't be able to say his lines , ’ said Carrie . |
| 18 | ‘ But we wo n't be able to say what happened until we have looked at the area in daylight . ’ |
| 19 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you wo n't be able to say you do n't know the play , ’ returned Iain McWhirter , with another nasal chortle . |
| 21 | ‘ When he does come back , he wo n't be able to say , ‘ Oh , I see everything 's gone to pieces while I 've been away ’ . ’ |
| 22 | But he wo n't be able to say no while the Mason holds your apprentice-bond . |
| 23 | Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them . |
| 24 | I 'm , but I would n't , I would n't be able to say whether it was or not so |