Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] say [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just in case I may say things I 'll be sorry for , I 'd better not go on , except for one last word . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I must say Brownies are a bit of a surprise to me . |
| 3 | And , I must say ladies , they do smell very nice ! |
| 4 | However , I should say editors gain no financial benefit from sales , all monies helping finance further publications and conferences , including bursaries to classroom teachers to attend the next CARN Conference . |
| 5 | For instance , man — or perhaps here I should say men — lack the huge canine teeth which distinguish the male great apes . |
| 6 | erm I think they said to me bar of I 'll say bars of Judy , if it 's any different I 'll let you know . |
| 7 | I 'll say thanks very much to Councillor Stuart Argyle for coming in our thanks as well to David Poole for joining us on the phone thanks David . |
| 8 | I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I could n't day in any other way — things that I had no words for . |
| 9 | ‘ I dare say thieves are no more frequent on the roads than in the town , ’ argued Ralf , saving Guy from further introductions . |
| 10 | The only thing I would say delegates is that the we will also swallow the goldfish and there 's a message in that for all of us . |
| 11 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 12 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 13 | I took a chance there but things … you might say things conspired in Elsie 's favour . |
| 14 | You 'd say animals . |
| 15 | In your experience is there er , er a distinct failure on the part of people , I do n't know whether you 'd say men or women to report a lot of crime , I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether you can assess what proportion of crime 's are n't reported ? |
| 16 | You 'd say babies are ‘ only crying ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 18 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 19 | She would say things that sounded critical and I would feel hurt . |
| 20 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 21 | Well , I kinda knew you 'd say that , but had forgotten the unique thrill of the way only you can say things . |
| 22 | ‘ You can say things to your dreams . ’ , |
| 23 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 24 | Now these kinds of accounts ( or perhaps one might say failures to give an adequate account ? ) of women 's lives are implicitly divisive and threatening . |
| 25 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 26 | I do n't think we can say poisons , that , that implies that it 's damaging health , we do n't know that . |
| 27 | One can say things about that . |
| 28 | The third is that they may say things that seem absolutely correct at the time , but which are made ludicrous by the unfolding of events . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 30 | Women tend to use more questions which sort of softens the effect of what they 're saying , so they 'll say things like , There we go and the men say things like , Let's go . |