Example sentences of "[pron] can only guess " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can only guess at the reason , ’ Becker said . |
| 2 | ‘ Without your knowledge , I can only guess . ’ |
| 3 | What my father felt about this conjunction I can only guess . |
| 4 | I can only guess that by then he had so established himself in my mind as a man who was trying to help women that I was no longer objective . |
| 5 | I can only guess that for erm some reason the bolts on the back of the chair fell off , or came lose and when she sat on it she leaned on the back , in an unusual position and fell through ! |
| 6 | Now as to what type of person came into this field and from where I can only guess , but I believe it was not people from the very close area although they would have lived in the vicinity . |
| 7 | ‘ Barney , it 's a wretched , miserable business and I can only guess what it 's doing to you . |
| 8 | Francis told me nothing of his intentions so I can only guess . ’ |
| 9 | What the ‘ fixing ’ amounted to we can only guess . |
| 10 | Why this was so we can only guess . |
| 11 | They are always hitching up underpants , scratching away happily at unspeakable things in their breeches and , with one finger , boldly trying to free their underpants that have become lodged somewhere dark and irretrievable that we can only guess at . |
| 12 | Harry himself scored 53 League goals for Palace and two in the FA Cup ; how many he laid on for other forwards we can only guess at . |
| 13 | We can only guess whether inter-racial bickering — or even rows over bad food ! — might explain such a bizarre two days ' events . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 15 | ‘ We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives in the Daily Mirror , but we hope they are nothing so base as money or , even worse , our nationality . ’ |
| 16 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 17 | We know the facts of his life , but we can only guess at his hopes , his fears , his dreams . |
| 18 | Later we find Pemberton speculating about his future role with respect to " his little charge " , but at that stage we can only guess what this role will be . |
| 19 | Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this . |
| 20 | However , as with all the senses , we can only guess at how other creatures perceive the world . |
| 21 | 1 This story contains other stories , which we can only guess at . |
| 22 | The church of St. John the Baptist has stood on this site for at least I 200 years but at what date the Christian religion first came to Halling we can only guess . |
| 23 | We can only guess as to the type of houses at this period , but if we believe the cartographer they seem to be buildings of the Hall House type . |
| 24 | That scaffolding must itself have been built by an earlier form of cumulative selection , at whose nature we can only guess . |
| 25 | The fact that we can only guess at the figures is one of the first clues to their situation . |
| 26 | We can only guess , but I 'm sure you know the reason . |
| 27 | We can only guess at how Sir James Rankin would react if he saw his ballroom today . |
| 28 | ’ We can only guess at the pain and stress those animals suffered . |
| 29 | For one thing , we can only guess at the proportion of actual offences known to the police . |
| 30 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |