Example sentences of "to say [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I have to say I enjoyed it far more than I expected . |
| 2 | You 're not to say I killed her . ’ |
| 3 | but used to say I hate them , I hate them coming you know ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I had something to say I said it , ’ he recalls , ‘ but I did n't want you lot ringing me up at three o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 6 | Once after hitching up there , I waited around in the car park until I saw him coming out — and I 'm ashamed to say I followed him home . |
| 7 | I am ashamed to say I took it , despite suspecting that his family might go short . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to say I thought I 'd done brilliantly . |
| 9 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 10 | ( I think of this as the ‘ Women ca n't vote/Men ca n't cry ’ argument ; needless to say I find it trivial and banal . ) |
| 11 | The wireless blared ‘ I just called to say I love you ’ as Daisy went back into the house . |
| 12 | More appropriate , perhaps , would have been : Bewitched , I Love To Love , Magic Moments , A Fine Romance , I Just Called To Say I Love You , Hello Hello ! |
| 13 | SINGER Stevie Wonder was jubilant yesterday after a San Francisco appeals court ruled he did not steal his hit song I Just Called To Say I Love You . |
| 14 | I 've tried not to say I love you — ’ |
| 15 | Darling — Just a note to say I love you and I ‘ m so glad . |
| 16 | Foster and Allen after our classical piece to the news with Frank orchestra and , I just called to say I love you . |
| 17 | ‘ I regret to say I think you are . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to say I see it rather differently , ’ the Doctor said . |
| 19 | ‘ He has the effing gall to say I suggested it myself and he knows bloody well I was taking the piss . ’ |
| 20 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 21 | I 'd like to say I did it my way . |
| 22 | That is not to say I consider I became , necessarily , a ‘ great ’ butler ; it is hardly for me , in any case , to make judgements of this sort . |
| 23 | Not sure what to expect but suffice it to say I found it worthwhile and stimulating |
| 24 | Nor had she answered messages through friends , and she had written to him only twice in his makeshift London digs — once to say she hoped he was well , and once about some dry cleaning . |
| 25 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 26 | Do n't forget to say you saw it first in Ski survey , February/March issue 1991 ! |
| 27 | I 'm just ringing up to say you helped me along with my ironing great . |
| 28 | until I could see physically they have rebuilt it , I mean I wo n't even say yes we 'll do it if you do it , I 'm going to say you do it and we 'll give you a |
| 29 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 30 | Whatever our Customers want to say we like them to speak to the staff at Shell stations first . |