Example sentences of "[adj] to have say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 2 | It might have been more honest to have said that the price paid for ending National Service was increased dependence on nuclear weapons . |
| 3 | And it tends to be I 'm sad to have to say it , it tends to be a limited number of colleagues who are totally I think , removed from the mainstream of what the majority off us want to see , who are to prepared to withhold their voted in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | Napoleon is supposed to have said ‘ An army marches on its stomach . ’ |
| 5 | ( This was not new ; Hippocrates is supposed to have said ‘ What is Woman ? |
| 6 | One of these entered the popular literature and is still repeated by journalists , despite the fact that Hugh McClean , who , in admitting his part in the Shankill UVF killings , is supposed to have said : ‘ I am terribly sorry I ever heard of that man Paisley or decided to follow him ’ , later denied making such a statement to the police . |
| 7 | Under hypnosis Kylie was supposed to have said , ‘ It 's so cold , cold . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 9 | Spemann is supposed to have said ‘ A discovery can be unexpected , but not un-noticed ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ What , like this ? ’ you 're supposed to have said , reaching down and rapping a leg with your knuckles . |
| 11 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 12 | But Franco was tougher than expected and the interview failed ; after it Hitler is supposed to have said he would rather go to the dentist than meet Franco again . |
| 13 | Do you not recall , Lady Danby , that she is supposed to have said that Miss Kyte has inherited everything ? ’ |
| 14 | Well , some time ago Jack Straw was supposed to have said that under the no new er Acts , or under a Labour government , that C C T would remain because of a transfer of undertakings we did n't er need to change . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry to have to say that Anthony is turning into an absolute bastard . |
| 16 | I am sorry to have to say ‘ shame on you Finlay Calder ’ for two disgraceful incidents , and ‘ shame on you , Scottish rugby powers that be ’ , for taking no disciplinary action against him . |
| 17 | I was quite sorry to have to say goodbye to some of my pupils . |
| 18 | I am sorry to have to say I shall not be able to attend the AGM since I will be away on a short holiday with my family . |
| 19 | Speaking earlier at the Asian Institute of Technology , WWF President Prince Philip said : " Thailand ratified the Convention in 1963 , but I 'm sorry to have to say that no enabling legislation has so far been enacted " . |
| 20 | It is boring to have to say that ( it actually makes me twitch even as I do ! ) , but it is no good pretending that it works in any other way , because it simply does n't . |