Example sentences of "could say [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
2 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
3 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
4 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
5 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |