Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [vb infin] say [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have said something about being in reasonably , good health despite a rather dismal daily round of commuting to Charing Cross and a crawl by bus up the King 's Road to the appropriately named World 's End pub , but that I was more tormented at that time with a clash of affections with two young ladies . |
| 2 | Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares . |
| 3 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 4 | I 'll have to say something like that before long . |
| 5 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |
| 6 | I 'd have said something to you , love , but she was your friend . ’ |
| 7 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 8 | But I I would have said somebody like that |
| 9 | Although the hot dog is making so much noise , I shall endeavour to say something about the structure in Wales . |