Example sentences of "could [not/n't] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly . |
| 9 | ‘ Could n't say for sure . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |