Example sentences of "say [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 2 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 3 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 4 | And one day I will say that I saw Erika Nordern , say that I coached her . |
| 5 | When I say that I can see , I mean that I can identify the three-dimensional shapes of objects , and their relative positions : thus , I can see that there is a chair standing in front of a table with a pile of books on it . |
| 6 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 8 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 9 | I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast . |
| 10 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 11 | ‘ Say that I recognise certain … felicities , sir ! ’ |
| 12 | People say that I can handle myself , but they have no idea what some of us went through . |
| 13 | I always say that I am not gay , I just love one man . |
| 14 | It is in my body qua sensitive that sensations occur ; and the occurrence of a sensation in some part of my body qua sensitive is all that I mean when I say that I feel a sensation in some part of my body . |
| 15 | In London I work through three agencies — you note that I say that I work through — I do n't know what you guys get in Rome , but here it is through … that 's most of the time … ’ |
| 16 | When I say that I mean I 'm operating without back-up . |
| 17 | I just say that I 'm sorry go on do n't want to be dejective this evening but I mean minutes will be taken notes will be taken points have been raised I think that 's a very valuable point that you 've actually have raised . |
| 18 | You say that I have the endurance — you say it in order to give me strength . |
| 19 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 20 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
| 21 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 22 | I think , while I say that I want children , and do I have a child , that i , it 's not made particularly easy . |
| 23 | People say that I have changed as a person . |
| 24 | And because many people — good Catholic people in England , France , Scotland , Spain — say that I , Mary , am the true Queen of England , not Elizabeth . |
| 25 | And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky . |
| 26 | But forgive me , Lord , if I say that I have no inclination towards another marriage . ’ |
| 27 | Well sort of well well you see er when I say that I mean erm er er insurance men , postmen , and postman was a very good job in those days you see . |
| 28 | First you find out that she 's dead ; then , a while later , I say that I never killed a single patient . |
| 29 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 30 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |