Example sentences of "he [vb mod] say [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pony went well today , ’ he might say as they dismounted . |
| 2 | He could say that he had the power but no obligation to do so . |
| 3 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 4 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 5 | He 'd say that it proved that , instead of a machine or a sampler , we really did play it ! |
| 6 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 7 | He used to say that I loved God more than I loved him . |
| 8 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 9 | He did not like the city now — in fact he used to say that he disliked any place he had known before 1914 . |
| 10 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 11 | Of the Imperial Camel Corps he would say that it comprised an aristocratic element among its officers and complete ruffians in the ranks ; all they had in common was a disdain for danger . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ he would say as they sat in one of those cafes with the plate glass windows looking out on to the beach and the sea , ‘ there 's a rocker over there . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's naughty of me , I know , ’ he would say as he put the phone down . |
| 14 | Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first . |
| 15 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |
| 16 | The warm weight was a comfort and a delight , and she wondered what he would say if he knew . |
| 17 | ‘ He would say if you want to get me , you would have to get me at eight o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 18 | He will say that he has duties to attend to and then , looking at the adventurers , will ask who they are and become confused again . |