Example sentences of "could [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that ‘ Abba ’ is the opening word of the Lord 's Prayer in Aramaic , we could rightly say that only through the Spirit can we pray and live out that prayer . |
| 2 | the money that we save on on on the residential bit we could perhaps say , right then we 'll do that bit in four days . |
| 3 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 4 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 5 | The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bonham Carter asked whether the Government had any contingency plans if Vietnam refused to accept them , but Lord Brabazon could only say that ‘ hopefully ’ the standard procedures to be used would not involve force . |
| 6 | Fatigued , his hands tremoring badly , he sat in front of the fire and could only say : ‘ Everybody git lost in life . |
| 7 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 8 | Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries . |
| 9 | And I could only say ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 10 | JVC could only say that the matter was still being considered . |
| 11 | I could only say ‘ all of it ’ . |
| 12 | His father could only say falteringly that ‘ My conscience has never allowed me to influence two people to marry . ’ |
| 13 | The Mod spokesman could only say : ‘ It was an unfortunate mistake . ’ |
| 14 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 15 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 16 | I could only say , stupidly , ‘ I believed Shelley and Mary were married . ’ |
| 17 | Today , the Foreign Secretary could only say that the Prime Minister is still ’ mobilising ’ — though what he is mobilising is not at all clear , because very little appears to be happening . |
| 18 | Well I could only say in the cupboard ? |
| 19 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
| 20 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 21 | Er , H I V , the aids virus is a , a debilitating disease , we wo n't pay out initially because as soon as on diagnosis you could basically say they are , er , they 've got a debilitating disease , but we will pay out as soon as the illness actually affects some other part of the body er , and moves in to another disease . |
| 22 | I think what you could sensibly say , to them , is , Look , I gather you 've had supply problems with |
| 23 | This is not the case when the bare infinitive construction occurs with an inanimate subject either : despite Wood 's contention that " we could scarcely say These tablets will help you sleep " , since the tablets , being inanimate , " can not do part of the sleeping " , the following have been found : ( 26 ) That [ = the injection ] was to help you relax . |
| 24 | At a seminar hosted by the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project last month , researchers and vendors could finally say with confidence that supercomputing in the 1990s and beyond will be done by parallel computers . |
| 25 | And now , you see , the thing was that we could see Boy walking into our bar , pausing in the doorway , and we could just say the line and laugh . |
| 26 | If I could just say one other thing , that is that I 've had a an initial of , of the blocks done and pending the outcome of Woolwich which I expect to get tomorrow erm , if they are backing out then I will be getting a full structural , engineers structural survey within a couple of days , this is the actually meeting plan . |
| 27 | And we need n't call them calories — we could just say the recipes were ‘ suitable for ladies on a reducing diet ’ or something like that . ’ |
| 28 | We do n't need all that much from each club to keep us afloat but if we do n't get your help , I am very concerned that in the present recession we shall not be able to keep up our work and in conclusion Your Royal Highness perhaps I could just say that the Seamanship Foundation is very grateful to the R Y A , to the Treasurer , Chris and particularly to the Senior Managers who have done everything they can to help the foundation , thank you . |
| 29 | Er Chairman I 'm perhaps I could also suggest that we change the word suggested erm because that i i it , perhaps you are looking for something slightly stronger erm er so it could just say in accordance with paragraphs two four to two nine or the points made in paragraph two point |
| 30 | Thank you Next item , Right agenda item three , notes of the Joint Consultative Committee held on the twenty-first of October , nineteen ninety-three , paper B. If I could just say a few words . |