Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 2 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 3 | I can only say that my own experience is quite the reverse . |
| 4 | ‘ My lord — ’ she said at length ‘ — I can not believe that my lord of Gloucester , being your uncle and the acknowledged protector of the realm , intends aught else than to rule in your name until you are of age . |
| 5 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 6 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 7 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |
| 8 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |