Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that story I dare say she felt that we could meet — for though it had not been ‘ taken from the life ’ it had , as Elizabeth 's very solid stories were apt to do , taken on life . |
| 2 | " That 's not altogether unknown , of course , but in this case I 'd say it was highly unlikely , virtually impossible . |
| 3 | ‘ If this were any other case of blackmail I 'd say it stinks , but as it is , it 's O.K. ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 5 | Oddly enough I mean it 's so far away from the yellow I would say it is n't wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ At the moment I can say I wanted to come here and not to America , ’ she smiled . |
| 7 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 8 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 9 | Again I j only from the picture I 'd say she is , er was n't that size . |
| 10 | I 'm never rude on the phone I could say she 's not in |
| 11 | Well my Lord I must say it had occurred to me erm that certainly on the basis on which I 'm contending for damages to be assessed with the plaintiffs and it is completely irrelevant , er er many of the matters to which the defendant 's expert goes to as to the damages and the extent to which they were caused by the negligence of the defendant , the breach of duty . |
| 12 | people latched onto it as something that was n't a political strike , was n't being led by militants , revolutionaries , what have you , and it was something , it was just for the freedom of the working man if you like , and his standard of living was not gon na suffer because of bosses intransig intransigence I 'll say it right in a while , and what have you . |
| 13 | If you had the additional capital to go all-out for a new start I 'd say it was almost a certainty . |
| 14 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 15 | At a guess I 'd say we 're over the Swiss Wilds . ’ |
| 16 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 17 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I do love you , ’ I answered , ‘ more than ever , but this is the last time I can say it . |
| 19 | Put your money on he 's one of the top in fact I would say he 's the hardest bloke in Shields him . |
| 20 | In fact I 'd say we 're worse off than what we was at the start of it . |