Example sentences of "i [vb mod] say [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't look — I mean , there was , or I should say is , I suppose , nothing like this in the twenty-fifth century . |
| 2 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 4 | All I 'll say is that you must be honest and , if it 's wrong and this man is a mistake , you must have the courage to tell me . |
| 5 | ‘ As for his hard-man image , all I 'll say is that he would n't have lasted five minutes in my day . |
| 6 | But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home . |
| 7 | All I 'll say is you missed a good lunch . |
| 8 | you know , if it 's got to be done , it 's got to be done , I wo n't worry about it , please ev , all I 'll say is , is , is can we please try and arrange it in advance , I 'd rather |
| 9 | I 've followed the events of of this erm unhappy but hardy perennial some time now erm I 've found it unusual because there was no Liberal volte face until now and er quite a lot of things happened where the Liberals changed their mind and I naturally started to wonder what has happened to make this change of mind come about and all I 'll say is I hope that it does n't have much to do with events in other counties or with any by-election . |
| 10 | All I 'd say is that I do n't quite agree with Stuart 's description of that summer with Oliver . |
| 11 | philosophical side of Marxism which is very interesting and there 's a lot of very deep thoughts but what we 've been given your definition , is what I 'd say is the political strategy that Marx said er was necessary to achieve the philosophical ends . |
| 12 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 13 | ‘ All I 'd say is , why are you so sure that this balcony is n't bugged ? ’ |
| 14 | And and , and I mean all I 'd say is I know it 's an issue geared to hearts too and this will be explained , so I just before |
| 15 | Which I 'd say is less useful in fact than the little ones . |
| 16 | Yeah , well what you do is they give you a sheet of paper and th , you write down who was involved in the conversation , so all I 'd say is , is erm Mum |
| 17 | The other thing I 'd say is that the budget settlement that we 've got introduces a further hundred thousand of investment in new technology , and this is part of our push to making us more efficient in the way we manage our budgets and all the rest of it . |
| 18 | Oh yes , well I dare say is n't finished ! |
| 19 | ‘ One thing I would say is that we get inundated with rent-a-quote demands . |
| 20 | ‘ All I would say is that he deserves the chance to keep on going and defend his title . ’ |
| 21 | The other thing I would say is keep a reserve behind your front line . |
| 22 | What , what , what I would say is this , there always , there always talking about anti social behaviour around the town and as I say if people have n't got the necessary coin , it could lead to anti social behaviour , it 's as simple as that . |
| 23 | The only thing I would say is never pay for anything in advance , particularly construction . |
| 24 | But what I would say is that we should perhaps er er you know identify areas where we think we might erm where discussion would be fruitful and then we could marshall the information if we , if we wished to . |
| 25 | All I would say is that the principle of fairness , though concerned exclusively with the use of evidence at trial , is not susceptible to categorisation or classification and is wide enough in some circumstances to embrace the way in which , after the crime , evidence has been obtained from the accused . |
| 26 | The other thing I would say is that the corporation were not at liberty to disregard their undertaking . |
| 27 | The only thing I would say is , is that we 're looking to er start in the next quarter various plans for maintenance routines one of which will be o , actually on furniture . |
| 28 | What I would say is that the power of the local planning authority to resist development on these sites would be materially reduced were the initial negative presumption against development afforded by greenbelt status removed from them . |
| 29 | What I what I what I would say is something I found in in BES has happened while I 've been here much less now than than earlier on , is engineers robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 30 | The only other thing I would say is erm |