Example sentences of "[vb mod] say with a " in BNC.

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1 No I should say with a er you know , I mean you 've got ta er i if it 's tongue and groove or , or whatever but as I say , tongue and groove is best .
2 It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’
3 She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora .
4 " No , " I 'd say with a mysterious air .
5 He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any .
6 ‘ I 'm fond of old Jack , I would n't want him to be hurt , ’ she would say with a sigh when we discussed the difficulties of meeting her current lover without Jack finding out .
7 But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd .
8 Still , in the cooking pot , and enlivened let's say with a dash of Cutty Sark or Christopher 's Finest Old Scotch , I do n't see why it should n't make out pretty well .
9 Here then we have in a nutshell the substance of the whole primatial claim succinctly summarized ; and when we find similar phrases in the documents of Popes Boniface V , Honorius I , Sergius I , and Gregory III , which came to light in 1120 , we can say with a very high degree of probability that these sentences contain the main substance of the additions made to the documents in which they appear .
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