Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] say was " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Dalmally I should safely say was my first schooling . |
| 2 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 3 | What I could not say was that , as we two stood in the shadowy parlour , I felt considerably within her spell . |
| 4 | There was little enough in her life that she could honestly say was exciting , but that morning she was a little nervous , and , yes , a little excited . |
| 5 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |