Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] say [prep] sure " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't say for sure ; when I mentioned a shot , he said he would n't have noticed it particularly . |
| 2 | ‘ Could n't say for sure . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | So far , McDevitt has been questioned and fingerprinted , but the FBI will not say for sure that he is a suspect . |
| 8 | Kaplan can not say for sure , but he hopes that his work ‘ will encourage those conductors who say they are devoted to finding out Mahler 's true interpretive intentions to reassess their own respective approaches ’ . |
| 9 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |