Example sentences of "[conj] say that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 2 | Not once had he spoken of his love for her , or said that he could wait for her too . |
| 3 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 4 | We went down to The Marquee the following morning and I think Ralph came up to us and said that we could have the money for all the gigs , including the Brummel Club , but after that we were finished . |
| 5 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 6 | These he called ‘ stressors ’ and said that they could be physical , physiological , psychological or sociocultural . |
| 7 | She said to them , sometimes , but she 's a widow , she lives all alone , she has no one , she seems to expect it of me : and they sympathized all the more , and said that they could see how hard it must be for Clara to break away . |
| 8 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |
| 9 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 10 | The Government 's announcement suggested a possible date beyond 2000 and said that it could be delayed up to 2005 . |
| 11 | However , ‘ Mrs. Butler , one of the aged attendants ’ appeared before the committee , and said that she could n't bathe the females without help ; to which matron replied that there were no able-bodied female inmates in the institution to give such assistance . |
| 12 | He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise . |
| 13 | But Brian Horton kept it in his office and said that he could n't have it until everybody stepped up the game a little bit , and they stopped conceding goals . |
| 14 | Dr Bach himself believed that his flower remedies helped to bring the physical , emotional and mental planes of the individual more into harmony with the spiritual plane and said that there could be ‘ no true healing unless there is a change in outlook , peace of mind and inner happiness ’ . |
| 15 | Jennie called me into the office and said that I could n't go as she had received a letter from my mother . |
| 16 | Two days later they called me back and said that I could n't go back to Jamaica , but offered me a place in the group going to Thailand , which was leaving in February . |
| 17 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 18 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 19 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 20 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 21 | I 've also heard Councillor er being , er er quoted in the press , as saying that he could find the money for capital schemes . |
| 22 | The best Ford simulator yet , in fact I will go so far as to say that they could not bring another one out to top this one . |