Example sentences of "[modal v] say it [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congratulations , I have just finished reading the December 1991 issue and must say it is your best yet ! |
| 2 | I 'll say it is I 'll say it is but she says she has a trapped nerve in the top of her leg , she says sometimes it 's not so bad but she said it 's not bad , you know when I get up she says I 'm in a lot of pain and it , you have to take painkillers for it |
| 3 | If it 's if it 's below the table we 'll say it 's it 's minus two centimetres you know . |
| 4 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 5 | Less generous critics might say it 's his last tilt at a windmill . |
| 6 | ‘ You could say it 's something of an embarrassment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You could say it 's yours , ’ he suggested . |
| 8 | If you were just a lodger , coming and going in your own way , I 'd say it was none of my business . ’ |
| 9 | Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob . |
| 10 | Well I I would say it 's his fault . |
| 11 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 12 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 13 | ‘ Then let's say it was I who felt embarrassed ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As an actress , you can say it 's your own film . ’ |
| 15 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |