Example sentences of "you could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could say he killed himself , really . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you could say I am playing to my peers . ’ |
| 3 | You could say the secret is location , location , location . ’ |
| 4 | Out of the blue , you could say . |
| 5 | You could say that , somehow , he made the most convincing of the would-be-leaders ' speeches . |
| 6 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 7 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 8 | No , I do n't think you could say they were engaged . |
| 9 | You could say it was identical except for the collar . |
| 10 | The house scene is dead , we 're told by the older club cognoscenti ; in fact ‘ before you could say Happy Flowered Roses , it was all over ’ ( NME ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Well you could say the same about people . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Overall I suppose you could say I specialise in general gardening ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You could say that . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose you could say I found the Goddess . ’ |
| 15 | You could say you 'd do a better job next time . |
| 16 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 17 | You could say it is envy , and indeed that is partly true , And I wo n't pretend that a factor in one 's accepting such an invitation is not the thought of spending a week in a grand hotel . |
| 18 | You could say I meant it as a gesture . |
| 19 | ‘ You could say that our first success is the fact that we exist , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 21 | You could say that Gilly is her own worst enemy . |
| 22 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 23 | ‘ You could say that . |
| 24 | If I were sending you off without a decent breakfast you could say that , but as it is … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 26 | No housekeeper could have resisted such an impassioned deputation : Violet was duly taken on and had donned her skivvy 's apron before you could say Octavia Hill . |
| 27 | But even the less dedicated of us , public and semi-professional , I think you could say that of us all really . |
| 28 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 29 | You could say that he was doing all of this so that he 'd end up behaving like one of us . |
| 30 | You could say , perhaps , that the Star Rank scheme was largely put on ice , but that was for want of a sponsor , which was always vital to the future of the scheme . |