Example sentences of "[modal v] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No I should say with a er you know , I mean you 've got ta er i if it 's tongue and groove or , or whatever but as I say , tongue and groove is best . |
| 32 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 33 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 34 | I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts . |
| 35 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 36 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 37 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 38 | The edges I should say at the , at the roll ? |
| 39 | But then it should say at the end , ‘ For further information contact |
| 40 | So on the flip side , in other words , nothing positive about the press release but positive about one truth , what one should say for a press release . |
| 41 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 42 | Oh , I should say of the four science schools on average we 've got maybe thirty or forty titles from each , so that 's about well certainly well over a hundred titles altogether . |
| 43 | And they used to go through about oh I should say about erm carts then you see , horse and carts . |
| 44 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 45 | He wondered if there was anything he should say to them , if there was anything they could possibly understand . |
| 46 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 47 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 48 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 49 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 50 | You see , you could say , surely there should n't be a weaning conflict , because an offspring should say to itself , okay , my mother wants to wean me , to have more offspring , but those offspring she 's gon na have are my siblings , I 'm very closely related to them . |
| 51 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 52 | I should say to my hon. Friend — |
| 53 | I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining . |
| 54 | Because the Fire and Rescue Service reductions are unacceptable , and I think this Committee should say to , and to leave that in its proposal to Policy Panel and P and R. |
| 55 | I would never hunt , I will also not demand that anybody else hunts and I do n't think other people should say to me what I should and what I should not do and I think that 's the issue . |
| 56 | What do you think I should say to the Principal ? |
| 57 | My mother turned round and said , well you should , you tell her , you should say to her look , I 'm next ! |
| 58 | You should say to Steven , ah no I did n't say anything . |
| 59 | But it should say to editors and , and radio people , ‘ Hey , this , this could be interesting for you , there 's a story here . ’ |
| 60 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |