Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was not to break down completely , and in front of Hester , she must say goodbye to Willie , and go . |
| 2 | ‘ I must say war is an ordeal , ’ Lord John smiled at the Duchess from the sideboard . |
| 3 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 4 | Well I should say sea , sea air an all |
| 5 | Which is ridiculous cos if you put a H in front of it it should say hate . |
| 6 | Now I think it 's up to the G M B to push this debate out , and we should say energy is the lifeblood of the U K , not the lifeblood of the speculators in the City of London , or the Tory Party , it 's the lifeblood of the people in this hall , and the people outside , and I think we should support a proper balanced energy policy for the U K. |
| 7 | I should say sugarbeet ai n't far off from a bloody parsnip . |
| 8 | Cos do you remember there was that erm monstrous creation I should say erection , erection for erm |
| 9 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 10 | So what We 'll say trial of quinine , yeah ? |
| 11 | Cos this is another thing , sometimes they 'll say discount , and I get ta I get students who said to me , what does this mean ? |
| 12 | I 'll say hypocrisy is vile |
| 13 | In the second and third years … drama , dance and music are taught together , but with three staff timetabled ; so at any one time we split the groups up we 've got group numbers of about 20 — three staff between two forms — and they 'll say work in drama on a theme for six weeks , then move on and explore that theme in music , then move on and explore that in dance . |
| 14 | So we 'll say deadline by thirty one January . |
| 15 | He does n't talk about birds that much he just sort of , now and again he 'll say shit and I 'll look round and I 'll see these like really cool legs going |
| 16 | Er now t take , take a , take one street er we 'll say Street . |
| 17 | they 'll make a erm they wo n't make a su , a surplus , I do n't like the word profit so I 'll say surplus out of this er little gathering here tonight . |
| 18 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 19 | Yeah we 'll say ham |
| 20 | we 'll fool them we 'll put we 'll say diesel |
| 21 | Just do more stat and it 'll say zero . |
| 22 | Richard , thou art an old fellow , an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart , every one as full of sedition , I might say treason , as an egg is full of meat . |
| 23 | She was looking at the the question of self-scripture , and she has as a a criteria for differentiation or some , or as you might say boundary marks , it 's a question of boundaries between different groups . |
| 24 | So you might say sex was a bit thin in this two-thirds of the room . |
| 25 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 26 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 27 | Or it might say hand wash only and the customer puts it in a washing machine . |
| 28 | Some people might say advertising reflects society , but I think it can be the other way round . |
| 29 | Policy is decided by the leadership and there are various er mechanisms for passing erm the leadership 's ideas on to the rank and file , various systems of , of education , some might say indoctrination and so on , but no real inner party er democracy , no real er involvement in the decision making processes by this mass membership of ordinary peasants . |
| 30 | You might say ham put down the Spanish ham . |