Example sentences of "you [modal v] say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just er you may say destiny brought me here which I never wanted to come to this place . |
| 2 | She was looking at the the question of self-scripture , and she has as a a criteria for differentiation or some , or as you might say boundary marks , it 's a question of boundaries between different groups . |
| 3 | I took a chance there but things … you might say things conspired in Elsie 's favour . |
| 4 | So you might say sex was a bit thin in this two-thirds of the room . |
| 5 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 6 | You might say ham put down the Spanish ham . |
| 7 | I expect you 'd say Stratford on Avon is south . |
| 8 | at it for responsibility and financial reasons and if you log down every bit that you spent doing admin assistant and E O then you 'd say stuff this for a game of soldiers but you do n't |
| 9 | Substitution of I for E so instead of forget you know I for E So instead of saying forget you 'd say forgit . |
| 10 | You 'd say animals . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Erm I , I do n't think I have a problem saying well actually I deal on er i if someone said erm if you said I play with Joe Snooks you 'd say Joe Snooks , that 's interesting Joe 's a , a very good client of mine |
| 13 | You 'd say babies are ‘ only crying ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 15 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 16 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 17 | But it truly is , Fenella. if the Robemaker is there , or even if one of his horrid spells — what they call Sentry Spells — is lurking , we 'd be taken up and captured before you could say Gruagach . |
| 18 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 19 | Cast them upon their own resources , and they 'd be on Valium three times a day before you could say Hoffmann-La Roche . |
| 20 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 23 | I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it . |
| 24 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 25 | But you could say AA or better . |
| 26 | No housekeeper could have resisted such an impassioned deputation : Violet was duly taken on and had donned her skivvy 's apron before you could say Octavia Hill . |
| 27 | Which was a pretty passive thing to do , in some ways , erm , and similarly , you could say Woodrow Wilson ended up crucified by the , by the allies . |
| 28 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | strong word , I am but as you would say walrus ha ha ha I 'm a cobbler . |