Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 2 | I mean is this being true to yourself and letting yourself down and you know not saying what you feel you should 've said erm perhaps now I wan na talk about one area in particular and that is this thing about you know submissiveness it seems that most people look at things that disturb you either as submissive or aggressive . |
| 3 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 4 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 5 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 6 | You should 've said fuck off you cunt . |
| 7 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 8 | Then she must 've said something . |
| 9 | He says it 's me wife and she 's as mad as hell , and they says yeah we can hear her from here and s must 've said summat about writing and she starts bawling and shouting , oh summat about you 've got to write I want a letter by Friday , you 're not messing me about no more , you 're not talking to him you 're talking to me . |
| 10 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 11 | ‘ You should have said earlier , ’ he complained . |
| 12 | Mr Ridley should have said he would learn from the failure of a consumer and credit-based boom , end the exclusive reliance on interest rates that so damaged the industries he was supposed to represent . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 14 | In which case , he should have said so . |
| 15 | ‘ Have a bit more , by all means , ’ I should have said , ‘ but please , please make sure you never have as much as we do . ’ |
| 16 | No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem . |
| 17 | ‘ You should have said something . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You should have said something . ’ |
| 19 | The report should have said ‘ if war permits ’ for , by October 1915 when the Annual General Meeting was reported in the Standard it was only the third press account that year and it indicated the Club was in dire straits . |
| 20 | I told Gary he should have said , ‘ And they must make you so proud ; everyone can see where they got their looks , Mother . ’ |
| 21 | What I should have said was that there was no serious dispute among professionals of quality who had any discernment in such matters . |
| 22 | Go easy on the women , Henry had said ; whereas what he should have said was , ‘ Tell the women to keep off you . ’ |
| 23 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |
| 24 | What he should have said was , ‘ It 's one small step for a man , ’ but he muffed his lines , as many an actor on a less impressive stage has done . |
| 25 | He should have said it 's a sign of too many people . |
| 26 | Got far away and my breath back and said , ‘ Bina you silly cow , you should have said , 73 Severn View , Montpelier , Bristol . ’ |
| 27 | You should have said . |
| 28 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 29 | She should have said : ‘ I am going to pay like everybody else . ’ |
| 30 | In the judge 's view , the auditors should have said ‘ bills receivable include bills … payable by an overseas debtor the credit-worthiness of whom it has not been possible to verify ’ , and ‘ subject to satisfactory recovery of the monies , in our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view ’ . |