Example sentences of "we [modal v] say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I think it 's up to the G M B to push this debate out , and we should say energy is the lifeblood of the U K , not the lifeblood of the speculators in the City of London , or the Tory Party , it 's the lifeblood of the people in this hall , and the people outside , and I think we should support a proper balanced energy policy for the U K. |
| 2 | he says that we should say God please forgive us as we forgive others . |
| 3 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 4 | So we 'll say deadline by thirty one January . |
| 5 | So what We 'll say trial of quinine , yeah ? |
| 6 | we 'll fool them we 'll put we 'll say diesel |
| 7 | and and Joanne Joe , say who could judge this , this is for our competition we 'll say Heidi coming , no , is anybody else in it , no er Sarah 'll come in cos she does n't know , right ? |
| 8 | Yeah we 'll say ham |
| 9 | Er now t take , take a , take one street er we 'll say Street . |
| 10 | So we could say total , total is three pound sixty or something like that . |
| 11 | Even Bevan reckoned that if the Labour Party were to campaign on a programme fully reflecting the aspirations of the rank and file party activists ‘ we could say goodbye to any Labour government being elected again in Britain' . |
| 12 | ‘ We could say Kylie 's just having fun , being a big kid , giving us a giggle ; but then the grown up Kylie goes and writes a caption to go with the picture , ’ began the psychologist 's summing up . |
| 13 | So fraction of a circle fraction of a circle this is going to be one third times three sixty or we could say number of degrees here , fraction of a circle as number of degrees . |
| 14 | In the end a single telephone call to London saved us before we could say Jack Robinson . |
| 15 | ‘ We could say great-granny was American . |
| 16 | One of the common differences between East and West is the words like table and table in West we 'd say table and East they 'd say table . |
| 17 | He would begin , presumably , by noting the larger-scale features of context : what channel is being used ( we shall say speech ) , what language code is being used ( we shall specify it is English ) , what message-form is being performed ( we shall specify it is conversation ) , what event is it embedded in ( we shall specify it is part of an interview ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jesus has a uniquely intimate relationship with God , so that we can say Jesus is God . |
| 20 | I do n't think we can say poisons , that , that implies that it 's damaging health , we do n't know that . |
| 21 | If that course is followed , we can say goodbye to the peace dividend . |
| 22 | because of that we can control , we can say turn on turn off whether they let the electricity go through or not . |
| 23 | So we can say start with counting numbers . |