Example sentences of "to say [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more to say except I hope that their year of office will be filled with happiness and wish them well with all their endeavours on behalf of Council . |
| 2 | I have to say that I regret deeply , deeply that I could not persuade her to make a film of Tosca . |
| 3 | It is no criticism of them to say that I felt a bit of a nuisance . |
| 4 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 5 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 6 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 8 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 9 | " But I 've come to say that I told the police station 43 is an agreed squat . |
| 10 | My mother continued to say that I lied . |
| 11 | Cos erm , apparently erm Trevor was working for Bettaware for Avon and they had the Social Services round to say that I hear that your working and they do toy parties and they said no , I mean there not making a living out of it , it 's was just |
| 12 | Sufficient to say that I regard the play as pure make-believe . |
| 13 | Mr Chairman er when we discussed this last time er I expressed the view that in fact er the county council had better things to do I 've not changed my mind erm since but I have been reminded that er when er the Roman Emperors er found ascension in the ranks when Roman Emperors found ascension in the ranks they provided bread and circuses and I have to say that I regard the two notices of motion which were placed in Mr notably fox hunting and this debate on V A T as bread and circuses . |
| 14 | This is not to say that I advocate the status quo . |
| 15 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 16 | Thank you erm I think that 's all I 'm concerned with except to say that I wrote er to a little church spelling what it is today er really into consideration on its this proposition so that we can ensure all of the issues with er our requirements . |
| 17 | He said , still with his back to her : ‘ It 's ridiculous to say that I forced you . |
| 18 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 19 | P.S. I forgot to say that I left a small memento at his grave . |
| 20 | It would have been more honest to say that I thought the litterbug needed a lesson . |
| 21 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 22 | I received it , along with her idea for making a Christmas fairy , just in time for the festive season and I 'm pleased to say that I made my fairy thanks to Mrs Sall and the post office . |
| 23 | You can go so far as to say that I mean , you will be safe in saying that if your , that as your benefit is suspended your income support for you , not for your family but for you , will be reduced . |
| 24 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 25 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 26 | I have to carry my tetanus card so that if I was er injured and unconscious and not being able to say that I 've had the horse serum , the doctor thinking , Oh look look he 's got lots of soil in that cut , er give him a quick injection of the horse serum , that could actually be fatal . |
| 27 | And it 's the evidence that a you 've got to produce to say that I 've got to demonstrate that the training that we do has objectives , so that they can go back and say to Cynthia , you went on that course in whatever , what were the objectives for it ? |
| 28 | I only want him to say that I 've done well in finding somewhere for us to be ! " |
| 29 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd also like to say that I 've received some twenty nine representations from constituents in my ward all of whom live in my ward who are opposed to fox hunting and have asked me today to vote to ban fox hunting on our land and I 've only received two representations from official bodies the video and , and a representation from the British Field Sports Association erm , in favour of fox hunting . |