Example sentences of "[pers pn] say that i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’
3 I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well .
4 ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’
5 I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police .
6 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 … ’
7 Slightly bewildered , I said that I had n't .
8 I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
9 Okay , yes I agreed for the er the price but I said that I have n't seen the work .
10 I said that I did not like institutional care , whether private or public .
11 I said that I did n't care for it .
12 ‘ Publicly I said that I did n't think it was possible , but that was mainly to take some pressure off me .
13 I said that I did n't like that idea to start off with
14 Because when that parcel came from Gwyneth you said that I think probably two thousand three hundred mini-bites in it .
15 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 .
16 same leg , so erm , see Gary moans at me that I , he says that I eat too much erm salt , now if I was to eat that much salt I would n't get cramp
17 Suffice it to say that I have n't had a single problem since on either machine , and would n't be surprised if David Heron 's problems can be solved by the same process .
18 There was nothing he said that I did not recognize as being the expression of my own heart .
19 Being on the side of the deer , let me say that I become steadily more dissatisfied with the anachronistic system of Highland estates and landownership .
20 Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television .
21 Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers .
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