Example sentences of "[modal v] say [that] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble . |
| 2 | Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text . |
| 3 | Lord Reid said that where a party , who is in no way at a disadvantage in bargaining , chooses to take a calculated risk , then he could see no reason why the court should say that he had acted against his own interests . |
| 4 | I 'll say that he 's gone . |
| 5 | It 's just this problem you might say that I 've got , y'know . |
| 6 | Only half of the libraries that returned questionnaires could say that they had considered how automation would affect the way they could continue to contribute information about holdings to the SUC . |
| 7 | Er er we could say that we 've got a much bigger range of aims and does that mean that we are more likely to have |
| 8 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 9 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 10 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |
| 11 | So I suppose one could say that you 've seen us at our worst , and anything else can only be an improvement . ’ |
| 12 | and if , you could say that you 've got last year 's opening times |
| 13 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 14 | I would s I would say that they have come poorer because they 're getting all their things taken , they 're , they cos |
| 15 | In answer to your question , then , and with the works not yet in situ , I would say that we have to rely more on sensitivity than on geometry . |
| 16 | Er , certainly in , in the first paragraph we would say that we have drawn attention over the years to the nuisance of illegal parking erm , by travellers particularly in Stewards erm while travellers have the right to live their own lifestyle we also believe that other residents have the right to live free from that kind of nuisance and problem and that it does need to be addressed somehow . |
| 17 | ‘ A second point , you are not conspicuously dandyish , indeed , I would say that you have grown to adult size with but little appreciation of the value of effective turn-out . |
| 18 | I suppose if one had to define the overall intention of the architect , one would say that he had built a pastiche in Tudor-Gothic . |
| 19 | The experts would say that he had died from suboxia — oxygen deficiency brought about in this case , Wycliffe believed , by a virulent poison . |
| 20 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 21 | There will not be wanting those who will say that you have weighed the odds , knowing yourself already suspect , and of two evils chosen the lesser . |
| 22 | Now let's say that we 've got a sample of erm thirty observations right . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 24 | Not many industrial sites can say that they have serviced the same industry for over 100 years . |
| 25 | But then again , we can say that we 've had a quiet week Saturday and Sunday , or from Friday till through till Monday morning , it can be packed out with people just visiting the blues . |
| 26 | It 's when at the end of your career you can say that you have benefitted some part of society , if not all of society , that you can say you have done well . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’ |