Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I say Sandra I think this is probably an Inland Revenue ruling . |
| 2 | ‘ Or should I say portcullis ? ’ |
| 3 | A very large number of obstructions and particularly season er seasonally obstructions and the visitors or should I say invisibility of many of the files in the network . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's for breakfast , or should I say brunch ? ’ |
| 5 | Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Francis , ‘ or should I say Ms. Razorblades , could we attempt lunch ? ’ |
| 7 | In his latest film scintillatingly entitled ‘ Dave ’ , he plays a duel role as US president and an ordinary Joe — or should I say Dave — picked out to help the country in crisis . |
| 8 | p 716 ) in the light , or should I say sound , of our own work . |
| 9 | ‘ I presumed that you had another candidate — or should I say victim ? — lined up . ’ |
| 10 | But I think that there has been some interesting arguments put forward this morning about the act , there 's more policemen , or sorry , should I say police officers available to Wiltshire . |
| 11 | Its city centre has many more pedestrian areas than Liverpool yet the great difference is that I was not surrounded by litter and street traders ' stalls unlike Liverpool ( or should I say Litterpool ) . |
| 12 | Could I say Chairman , in Worcester and Shropshire are in agreement with this budget and er , which has been engineered to a great deal by the Chairman of the Budget and er , we 're here to , |
| 13 | no , what 'd ya say Arthur what 's this ? |
| 14 | Erm I I I I will apologize if I am wrong but my interpretation of the table is that erm could you say chairman wh which of three rows of We 're dealing with the the top part of the table all vehicle travellers , |
| 15 | The fish character would be better , or dare I say banana ! |
| 16 | To marry by special licence , and if necessary without her parents ’ permission , so that before I went away again we should have become one in body as we were in — dare I say spirit ? — at any rate , in mind . |
| 17 | To Bobby Hunt , Minton wrote : ‘ We 've done and been done by Venice , Padua , Rome , Florence and now on the Côte , dare I say d'Azur . |
| 18 | Shall I say shout . |
| 19 | Well what would you say Joy , because you did touch on this in your , in your comments ? |
| 20 | So she 's quite scheming and erm , would you say money grabbing character ? |
| 21 | ‘ Would you say Dersingham is entirely sane ? ’ |
| 22 | Would you say beef ? |
| 23 | If you , if you arrest someone for murder would you say suspicion of first degree murder ? |
| 24 | It is if you if you want to go and see it and get a sort sense of history without a lot of shall we say school school book text type history , but just local history excellent I I I was there well the tour was erm an hour and three quarters and it sort of ran out of light more than ran of talk . |
| 25 | She had , you see but see it 's like shall we say dad hiring a car |
| 26 | What shall we say spins or rotates . |
| 27 | I think for a lot of people , yes , it does , and though the pile of bricks obviously comes under Art with a capital A , crafts perhaps has not suffered quite as much , but I think there is the feeling amongst people that if they get a pot which is , shall we say non-function and wo n't pour , then is it art or craft ? |
| 28 | What you 've got to do then is to relate erm , this particular topic to , shall we say themes , and techniques in the play itself . |
| 29 | So if you were , if you were having an analysis shall we say Theresa , you reported your dream to the analyst . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , shall we say November 10th then ? ’ |