Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] say [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 2 | No , I thought it might 've said at the back and Dinosaur |
| 3 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 4 | be able to say to you which I 'll have to say next term when I go in to do my inspections , I 'll have to say to the teacher er , one |
| 5 | Not because of their undoubted erudition , acuity and ( not least ) charm have pre-empted everything we , their successors , might have to say on the matter ( culture is evolving at too vertiginous a speed for that to happen ) , but because we are n't alone in having read Barthes and Eco and assimilated their methodology . |
| 6 | In fact , as is now abundantly clear , it meant that the Government would ratify Maastricht , but without the social chapter , whatever Parliament might have to say on the matter . |
| 7 | Whatever the anti-nuclear movement might have said about the way the result was achieved , the CEGB had got the outcome it wanted . |
| 8 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 9 | Erm but er unless I I may repeat one or two of the things I 'd have said on the phone I 'm bound to do that , er the three things that are gon na be decided here today really is you if you and I erm you 've got inside information of course , er if you and I agree that er is the is the platform for you to earn some good money . |
| 10 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 11 | Even the most abstract theoretical thesis uses data of some kind , even if it is largely what other people may have said on the topic . |
| 12 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 13 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 14 | Er I would like to say at the outset that erm we we support the deposit version of the er the deposit version allocations of the alteration . |
| 15 | Erm , I would like to say at the start . |
| 16 | ‘ During the interruptions in recording , he would keep saying across the desk , ‘ Keep the ball in the air , keep it going , keep it up . |
| 17 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 18 | erm I would have to say in the university 's defence , as you would imagine I would say |
| 19 | Well I I would have said on the phone that under normal circumstances if you 're salaried or have been salaried I do n't talk people into this unless they 're a certain age . |
| 20 | She tiptoed out , leaving Sally-Anne to fall into a light sleep — but not before she felt a little mean , as she would have said in the USA , about deceiving the good old lady — and Dr Neil Cochrane , of course . |
| 21 | You will need to say on the application form whether you want to vote by post or by proxy . |