Example sentences of "[vb mod] not say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 2 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 3 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 4 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I really could n't say about that . ’ |
| 6 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 7 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Just could n't say with any certainty . ’ |
| 9 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 10 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 11 | I could n't say for certain what our smallest listed building is , but I suspect that some old wall-mounted pillar boxes will be strong candidates ! |
| 12 | He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly . |
| 13 | ‘ Could n't say for sure . ’ |
| 14 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 15 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 16 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 17 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
| 18 | ‘ In all honesty , though I should be loth to say of any man that he is capable of killing , I dare not say of any man that he is wholly incapable of it . |
| 19 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 20 | Danny O'Dell shook his head , and Ruth prayed that her son would not say with devastating candour : ‘ Your cake tastes funny ’ — then breathed again as he said politely , ‘ No more , thank you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 21 | Well it does here , I do n't know er , I would n't say in some of the parts of Harlow I would get that feeling , but then I am really a country person at heart and I do n't like towns anyway , so I 'm not really the best person to ask , no . |
| 22 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't say with any certainty where I did go , but it was n't home . |
| 24 | Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , who is liaising with anti-terrorist officers , said : ‘ We ca n't say with any certainty that we have found them all . ’ |
| 25 | In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't say for certain . |
| 27 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 28 | He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 30 | First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite . |