Example sentences of "i could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 2 | Before I could say anything he continued with , ‘ You must have a girlfriend somewhere , Piper , a smart-looking bloke like you . ’ |
| 3 | Before I could say anything , Taff remarked , ‘ Come on , Boyo . |
| 4 | But before I could say anything he started to shout at me , saying ‘ Mrs Desai , you ca n't talk back to me or to Mr Diffy or Mr Mike . ’ |
| 5 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 6 | I wish I could say exactly what I saw . |
| 7 | ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn . |
| 8 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 9 | Our Gofer ( a young woman ) grabbed his hand before I could say anything and said , ‘ Great , show me will you ? ’ and dashed off with him in tow , coats flying . |
| 10 | All I could say was , with what special materials does he propose to undertake this great task ? |
| 11 | I wish I could say the same for ours and , soon , I shall . |
| 12 | Likewise , if instead of saying , ‘ there is a patient outside ’ , I could say ( out of role ) , ‘ In a short while I will be a patient coming to the consultant 's office — how do you want me to play the role ? |
| 13 | At the end of the war I could say that I , too , was prepared to forgo a nebulous eternity in exchange for the short span we had had together . |
| 14 | When I asked the woman in Lima in charge of the government 's tourist agency FOPTUR what image of Peru was being promoted to attract a hoped for 780 million dollars worth of tourists within the next couple of years , she told me : ‘ I could say we have everything here — the three regions , mountains , coast and jungle ; beaches and adventure . |
| 15 | Then she added : ‘ I wish there was something I could say . ’ |
| 16 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 17 | I saw him disappear but , before I could say anything Fergus started yelling . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish I could say the same . |
| 19 | It was a sickeningly familiar story and there was not much I could say , apart from expressing regret and understanding . |
| 20 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 21 | Years later I could say the same of my old MGB . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean I could say anything at all ? ’ she asked with a mischievous smile . |
| 23 | I could say I 'm a student . |
| 24 | And I — wishing I could say something really imposing , like Montmorency or Fitzpomeroy — said trenchantly : ‘ The name is Smith . ’ |
| 25 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 26 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 27 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 28 | I wished I could say : ‘ This is nothing to do with my book . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could say my success bodes well for him , but I just do n't know . |
| 30 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |