Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] said [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 2 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 3 | I should have said that beauty does n't matter , or something like that . ’ |
| 4 | On page 27 of the last issue of Credit Management , the footnote should have said that individual voluntary arrangements account for 13 per cent ( not 1 per cent as was printed ) of personal failures . |
| 5 | He said he should have said that morning that if you looked at Dynmouth in one way you saw it prettily , with its tea-shops and lace ; and that if you looked at it in another way there was Timothy Gedge . |
| 6 | Lastly , I should have said that entries close at 17.00 GMT on Fri 14th ( not 13th , as I said earlier ) . |
| 7 | Er and I , I think I , I should have said if er la you know after I 'd had my own , enjoy your babies while they 're young because they grow up so quickly , whereas before it was a case of , do n't pick them up when they , you know , if they cry leav let them cry . |
| 8 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 9 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 10 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 11 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 12 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 13 | He might have said that because he did not think the interview/s with W took the Crown 's case any further . |
| 14 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 15 | Once he might have answered differently — might have said that the two things were different in kind — but now he was not so certain . |
| 16 | They might have said that harm is not " actual " unless it is something beyond the trivial , for which a charge of common assault is adequate ; but they have not imposed even this degree of control . |
| 17 | To keep these politicians in their high office , he might have said but did not , he and his people sometimes had to deal with creatures just as nasty as Zack . |
| 18 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 19 | I could have said that their way of life would slowly become less and less glamorous , more and more morally debilitating . |
| 20 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 21 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all I can think about , and whether I could have said or done anything . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 24 | ‘ If you 'd have said that to Led Zeppelin , ’ postulates Derry , ‘ they 'd have had their manager f—ing shoot you ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You know , if anyone had asked me — and no one did , mind you — I 'd have said that several people had a reason to kill Newley . |
| 26 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 27 | See , i , if we , if we 'd have said that about you erm , nobody knows what |
| 28 | I 'd have said if he 'd been dead but Kevin 's mum said he was on the danger list . " |
| 29 | And we 'll call it the and we 'd have said and You find you find the value of the function , for a particular number , a particular input , a particular value of X. |
| 30 | He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election . |