Example sentences of "[vb mod] say i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I must say I 've also been er you know very very impressed and er learnt quite a lot just attending these courses that you 've you 've got running here . |
| 2 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 3 | ‘ But I must say I 've never seen him quite so — ’ |
| 4 | I must say I 've almost forgotten what they look like . |
| 5 | But I must say I do n't expect to be seen as the next Mansell , but as the first Damon Hill . ’ |
| 6 | Though I must say I do n't know that I 'd very much mind having this little sweet one for a couple of weeks to myself . ’ |
| 7 | I must say I do n't think twice now about opening that window whereas before I only did it reluctantly because of all the dust . |
| 8 | Right , I do n't , I mu , I must say I do n't think I would of won without Karen , she got most of them , I was writing them down most of the time . |
| 9 | ‘ I must say I did n't pay much attention to that , ’ Maggie confessed . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I must say I did n't expect the red carpet , but neither did I expect you all to look at me as though I were the devil incarnate ! |
| 11 | Erm I I I must say I have n't read or heard anything about the British Gas thing . |
| 12 | I must say I have never spared myself , and never will as long as I live . |
| 13 | A prompt reply I would have deemed a common decency , you being a fellow screenplay writer , though I must say I have never cared for your work , finding it , at once , both florid and superficial . |
| 14 | Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking . |
| 15 | I should say I 've just as much |
| 16 | Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones . |
| 17 | she 'll say I wonder where you were , cos they are like that are n't they ? |
| 18 | and I 'll say I have n't got one yet because I ca n't afford to buy er a non-pirate copy of WordPerfect until next month . |
| 19 | Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench . |
| 20 | I could say I 've never had an illness in me life and whatever ca n't I ? |
| 21 | You could say I 've always had a vested interest in lingerie . |
| 22 | " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . " |
| 23 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 24 | I 'd say I do n't know where it is at all . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd say things like ‘ who is this Michael X guy ? ’ and I 'd say I did n't know' , says Neville . |
| 26 | I 'd say I did n't do it . |
| 27 | Yeah I 'd say I did n't do it , I 'd say I did n't do it . |
| 28 | Yeah I 'd say I did n't do it , I 'd say I did n't do it . |
| 29 | I would I 'd say I did n't do it . |
| 30 | I was n't memorably arresting or amusing , and I dare say I fell back on the weather like everyone else , but it worked . |