Example sentences of "[modal v] say that i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 2 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 3 | At this point I must say that I have n't yet found a carp that did n't eat Tropicanas . |
| 4 | In responding to the hon. Gentleman 's reference to Sir James Barrie , I should say that I do not , I fear , have a drop of Scottish blood , but he was my father 's godfather . |
| 5 | But you could say that I have never really stopped missing Mother . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm quite disappointed by the sound of the amp — it 's just not there for me — although I would say that I 've always thought Trace Elliot had a kind of soul-less sound . |
| 7 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 8 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |