Example sentences of "[adv] say i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , surely , coming back to the a highly say I did n't do it . |
| 2 | ‘ In so saying I express no view whatsover as to the correctness or otherwise of the jury 's award ’ . |
| 3 | So that 's why we we make the advert curious enough or enough curiosity in it , no vagueness I suppose we make it vague enough to say I 've got to phone in . |
| 4 | Only to say I came back and saw glass as another might see it . |
| 5 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 6 | I just looked in to say I 've found my watch , Nurse Dungarvan . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 8 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 10 | I can only say I feel sure — it must go where it 's needed . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 12 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 13 | Oh just say I know him quite well . |
| 14 | And then you just say I 've got five |
| 15 | Plus , plus I get extra as well whenever I ask for it she just gives it me I just say I 've spent it all . |
| 16 | Just say I 've popped down to see the . |
| 17 | And I 'm going well I 've I just say I 've had erm three operations on my toe and I too painful so the doctor said advised me to only do games if I feel okay . |
| 18 | He just says I mean he was saying to June |
| 19 | ‘ I have already said I wish to make a call privately . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've already said I admire your ambition . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not saying I lose sleep about it , but the prospect of making a howler in front of millions of people is a worry . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 24 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 25 | Well , I 'm not saying I see it quite like that , I mean , that 's the mythology … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not saying I think he 's foolish . |
| 27 | I 'm not saying I suppose it 's better |
| 28 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm not saying I want to see Morris ' Utopian vision in action exactly as it is , but a lot of his idea is still very inspiring a century after it was written . |
| 30 | ‘ It is always nice to beat Boris although I am not saying I have proved I am a better player , ’ said the 24-year-old Stich . |