Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down . |
| 2 | ‘ It makes me want to say , forget it , I do n't want it any more , or say , next year is definitely my last year . |
| 3 | Yes erm listening to the punters I mean I know loads of people come up here and there 's one thing which all of them tend to say and that this place is threatening . |
| 4 | It often breaks her great big heart when she to me doth say , |
| 5 | One of them tried to say something . |
| 6 | ‘ If critics have any reason for existence , ’ one of them has said , ‘ this is it : to give assurance of value , and to provide somehow perhaps anyhow — the means by which readers may be put in possession of the valuable book . ’ |
| 7 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 8 | You 've got to think ‘ What do I want to say ? |
| 9 | But there was , I regret to say , much worse to follow . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , the servants ' hall at Darlington Hall , like any servants ' hall anywhere , was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception , and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee — and at times , I regret to say , members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of , say , Mr Jack Neighbours . |
| 11 | ‘ I regret to say I have , Mr Stevens . |
| 12 | Mr Pecksniff refers to them as ‘ those fabulous animals ( pagan , I regret to say ) who used to sing in the water ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I regret to say I think you are . |
| 14 | Etc , I regret to say , were sniping aircraft from Vichy , France , who flew over the channel , sometimes as low as twenty to thirty feet above the waves and were trigger happy . |
| 15 | Long-finned Koi are here to stay , I regret to say ! |
| 16 | In fact , if you value your domestic happiness , it might be advisable for Jenny to absent herself during my visit , as I am , in fact , I regret to say , irresistible to all women . |
| 17 | That will give me an opportunity of passing on any messages — of a verbal nature only , I regret to say ! |
| 18 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | Alix , I regret to say , did not take the Civil Service seriously as a prospect . |
| 20 | I regret to say that there are no general guidelines available . |
| 21 | Many of the owners were sympathetic but the majority , I regret to say , were not so inclined . |
| 22 | ‘ I regret to say , ’ said the voice with satisfaction , ‘ I 've never heard of you . ’ |
| 23 | When Newham 's councillors talk of 40,000 jobs coming to east London , they are conning not only their own people but the rest of us , including , I regret to say , the people of Hackney . |
| 24 | Disgraceful accusations were made by Opposition Members , including , I regret to say , the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment , the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) , from whom I expected better . |
| 25 | We are dealing with the issue of investment and the necessity for it — which , I regret to say , the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not seem to understand . |
| 26 | I regret to say that this has been a breathtakingly disappointing debate , even by the standards of those initiated by Labour Members , redeemed only by an excellent constructive contribution by my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest ( Mr. Norris ) , who made an outstanding speech . |
| 27 | Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past . |
| 28 | The dispute , of which much has been made , I regret to say , by some ill-informed members of the Labour party , was about recognition , not trade union membership . |
| 29 | I regret to say that in consequence of the contents having been packed before they were thoroughly dry they are all in a badly mildewed state , so much so that I shall have to dry each specimen individually and remove the mildew with a brush : the smallest of the two large skins has also lost the whole of the wool or hair from the head ; The bottles too not having been properly secured , the spirit has escaped and caused the small boxes to fall to pieces forming an heterogenous mixture of nests , eggs broken and sound , tops , bottoms , and sides of boxes , plants , etc . |
| 30 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |