Example sentences of "i [vb mod] say [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What do you think I should say to the Principal ?
2 Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’
3 Well well you 'd go to er er I should say in the morning service , that was a service you used to have .
4 I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference .
5 I 'll say at the outset , that Holy Communion is not something that we play about with .
6 ‘ No , Jordi , no ! ’ was all I could say as the train slowly carried him away into the dawn .
7 There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard .
8 So therefore Mr Deputy Speaker in conclusion , what I 'd say to the minister is , number one do we really need this order at all ? because why should we have extra seats just because Germany are getting more .
9 And I would say , I 'd maybe be about twenty or thirty yards away from the coach , and I 'd say to the shunter when he come out , That buckeye 's not caught .
10 And he sort of puts his hand near it , oh it 's a bit warm , oh I 'd say about a couple of amps .
11 I 'd say in a way that basically it 's a form of a policing job .
12 I dare say in the end I 'll settle for second-best . ’
13 I used to say to the wife : ‘ Look at this bloody lot .
14 It was an incentive I would say for the shop stewards .
15 Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place .
16 I would say to the queen what I say to you .
17 Now , well now it 's just now we 've got nobody who , who score actually really scores goals except Thomas I would say at the moment .
18 Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation .
19 I would say like a bit myself you know
20 I would say in the majority , it 's semi-skilled .
21 My mother has just arrived and I would say from the look of her she is all set to greet you as a long-lost child . ’
22 I would say from the point where I was told on the radio that the officers were entering the premises to the point where I was told everybody was secured , could not be more than four five minutes .
23 But I shall say what about , I shall say to the estate agent how determined are these people to move ?
24 I can say to the governor that you misunderstood the order and tried to defend yourself .
25 All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . "
26 The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy .
27 ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’
28 I can say without a shadow of a doubt that he was one of the most popular people in the club , very straight and down the middle . ’
29 All I can say about the cuntona incident is why is he still walking ?
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