Example sentences of "say [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say I 'll do this or that , it 'll be hell , but I know the stakes , I 'll do it , I can cope . |
| 2 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 3 | She said Nikita 's earned so much , say I 'll go round the world , you know the young ones . |
| 4 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 5 | Next time I see him , I 'll probably see him tomorrow no I , you usually see him round town , so I say I 'll arrange a time |
| 6 | Erm the the railway track , erm once it was extended through to and I say I 'll give you the details on that in a minute , erm went over the er Road , and then the track that was nearest to er the town , was curved in and joined that other line erm and er went off to . |
| 7 | So I say I 'll ring him back . |
| 8 | As I say I 'll take a stall and I 'll be there all day if anyone can help me . |
| 9 | Well if we 're not I 'll ring him up and say I 'll say er |
| 10 | Well if I say I 'll come at five , cos that gives me a chance to do all the sort of phoning |
| 11 | I say I 'll have a word with them and he should n't follow me . |
| 12 | Should watch that clock and say I 'll have one every two hours . |
| 13 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 14 | they ca n't tell the difference I mean there 's nothing In fact if I ca n't get Krona at Presto and I ca n't get it at Co-op , I shall write to Kr to Pre to Krona and say I 'll have a I 'll have a box . |
| 15 | I say I 'll put me feet up before we wash up |
| 16 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 17 | say that 's not fair , say I shall miss you then wo n't I ? |
| 18 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 19 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
| 20 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 21 | ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court . |
| 22 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 23 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 24 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 25 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 26 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 27 | They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm — more land , less house , says Johnson . |
| 28 | but I think that , that with what it is you know , but then I say she 's got that anyway , she 's not as , as tough as what she makes out , but er it would be worth having a look you never know what 's in there , and I say I must pick up a couple of paper towels |
| 29 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 30 | You say I 'd have to revert to the ranks . |