Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , we must only say in general terms what is required of him . |
| 2 | Chairman , I must just say about other organizations , it is approved that they 're going , part of the West Midlands region , is more better off than integral part of the region of Great Britain , or whatever , erm , if they 've got money into their region , they jolly well keep it there , we do n't know where Coventry is . |
| 3 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
| 4 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 5 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 6 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Yes — there , look , a hairline , but I could n't say with absolute certainty that it 's a fracture . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't say for certain . |
| 19 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So far , McDevitt has been questioned and fingerprinted , but the FBI will not say for sure that he is a suspect . |
| 24 | They 're also , Mr Mayor , interestingly coming out in favour of the individual but I must admit I applaud that and at long last in some , admittedly very modest way , er they are moving , I wo n't say to fiscal responsibility , but at least they 're learning the lessons of the recklessness of the past of their policies . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 28 | I can not say with absolute certainty that Clare Mallender did not possess a photograph of me , but I can say that there was no reason why she should have done . ’ |
| 29 | This is an inherently vague and flexible concept and its uncertainty causes difficulties for the drafter , who can not say with absolute certainty that any particular clause will be effective . |