Example sentences of "but i [vb mod] say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For myself , I think the moat alone would have been quite enough , but I dare say one gets used to the feeling that we might all sink . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But I dare say we could get around that . |
| 3 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , this is the first winter for a long time in which Lowa has no distribution in Britain but I dare say someone will fill the gap before long . |
| 5 | But I dare say you like apples . |
| 6 | But I dare say you wo n't believe that . |
| 7 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 8 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |
| 9 | So I w , I have n't heard what they 've said about holidays , but I would say they ought to say to people , if , if you know , if your allocated six weeks holiday , you take that six weeks holiday . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 're on the right road , but I would say you had chosen the wrong day . ’ |
| 11 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 12 | Erm but I would say it 's mostly maintenance trades . |
| 13 | Erm but I would say it does indicate the er seriousness of it . |
| 14 | The gardener wo n't like it , but I 'll say it has some kind of disease — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've said it to you before , but I 'll say it again . |
| 16 | But I shall say what about , I shall say to the estate agent how determined are these people to move ? |
| 17 | There ought to be moonlight , starlight or sunset , music — But I shall say it anyhow . ’ |
| 18 | Younger than me , yes , just slightly younger than me , two or three years , I do n't know exactly but I should say she 's two or three years younger than me . |
| 19 | I mean I ca n't remember really but I should say he 'd probably be about six foot two or three . |
| 20 | Well , to hell with them , but I will say everything to the last word . ’ |
| 21 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know Norman 's reaction to Fergie 's story but I can say they have left me with a bitter feeling . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't always ignore what they say but I can say it 's a lot of crap . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I can say it 's a lot of crap ! ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , but I can say it now . |
| 26 | But I can say there are other things you can do . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 28 | I do n't have that much brains , but I 'd say I had good common sense . |
| 29 | I do n't want to sound too flame-eyed and low-blink-rate about it — and , all right , I know I 'm a real simp in many areas — but I 'd say I was way ahead of Tod on this basic question of human difference . |
| 30 | Well I 'd say to price it , I know they 're not quite so expensive on carpet but I 'd say I 'd say about seventeen pounds , but I bet it was about twenty seven or thirty one |