Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think I want to say it , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What do you think I want to say ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 4 | erm but on the other side , I do think I want to say this afternoon that erm the church is trying to do something . |
| 5 | I do n't think I need to say anything further on the Council 's erm position on the new settlement erm or reiterate Hambledon 's earlier view that it 's n its er view that the settlement is not needed and can not be justified . |
| 6 | Erm I do n't think I need to say any more , but I promise to come back later when I 've heard what other have , have to say . |
| 7 | Yes , I mean I have to say that if you 're , if you 're a member of a family and one of your members of the family is out in the Gulf , then you 're obviously going to be |
| 8 | I mean I have to say for myself , I mean I was married . |
| 9 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What d' you want to say , then ? ’ |
| 11 | Say hello t d' you want to say hello ? |
| 12 | What has he got to say to that ? |
| 13 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 14 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 15 | He says we have to say parents have been very sensible , they appreciate there 's a slighltly increased risk in the community . |
| 16 | However , when this is accepted one has to say that Marx 's humanitarianism is a flawed humanitarianism . |
| 17 | And obviously the novelist 's apocalypse is by no means identical with his received Christian one ; hence , in part , the divergence of his art from the things his notebooks show him wanting to say . |
| 18 | Let it suffice to say , at this point , notwithstanding the criticisms that have been made of the assumptions on which both ISI and ELI theories are based , export-import structure is now a key characteristic of the economic growth and by implication developmental prospects of Third World countries . |
| 19 | They may be the clew to reveal to you what you did n't think you wanted to say . |
| 20 | We 've all — take these two poems , we 've all been children ; most people have been in love ; we 're all we all think about our death ; we all think about our parents ; we all like stories and we all like stories that seem , you know , to deal with some primal central human experience , so I do n't think you have to say anything more than what we all know already , that we all have a great deal in common with one another . |
| 21 | Erm , but you really need to do it , cos the risk of things going wrong are very high , you do n't Right , let's file I wanted to say a fe a few things about One Two Three Release Three , cos there are some differences on the Windows products . |
| 22 | Anywhere we could go and milk so , they give us notice to say first farm was name . |
| 23 | I do n't think we need to say that do you ? |
| 24 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 25 | You know I hate to say it but privatization might be required , right there 's too much government involvement , there 's too much erm er there 's too much inefficiency , right , by and large there 's an awful lot of er bribery , corruption , patronage in developing countries , their government sectors are very very large . |
| 26 | But even the mediocre ones you know you have to say , Come on chaps there must be more businesses in this . |
| 27 | Because of the numbers of people involved and because of , well , I suppose I have to say it , the inevitability of leaks . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose I have to say I 'm a conservative , ’ she admitted . |
| 29 | I I would even take I have to say I would even take a erm |
| 30 | So it , it was , I suppose we have to say in the past tense , it was , the National Anthem of Czechoslovakia . |