Example sentences of "[modal v] say be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 2 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 3 | What the outsider might say is this . |
| 4 | 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 — " |
| 5 | All he 'd say was that nature meant men and women to be attracted by each other and if they were n't , the species would n't reproduce themselves . ’ |
| 6 | I think that er , er , what I would say is that er , we would follow the markets erm , where they lead us . |
| 7 | Well , all I would say is that youca nt really be too critical of players in what is only their second match . |
| 8 | All I would say is that , when the plan reaches modification stage , the Department will be looking at that the situation very closely indeed , and at that stage I would fully expect that even though I wo n't be here to do it myself , as I shall have retired by that stage , |
| 9 | Then again if you 're I think the only thing on that I would say is that , creativity in as a positive , erm , that that your there are loads of possibilities about how you could actually try and create situations , which would actually break down barrier , one of the barriers you had was , I 'll give you one if you give me one . |
| 10 | Butchering 's a tasty part of , if I wanted to do anything I 'd take a leaf out of , I would say is that , but I delegate down through the butchers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The other thing I would say is this that the management , whilst they very rarely agree with what Eric has got to say I 've never met a member of management at any level , at any level that does n't respect what he 's got to say and that 's a tremendous , er psychological blow before they even get round the table , because he 's completely disarming and his record in terms as vic er for , of victories , for individual members and groups of mem er , members , er , is legendary and I think apart from his ability it 's the respect in which he 's held by , by everybody , by everybody . |
| 13 | What I would say is this three things . |
| 14 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 15 | What I will say is that good art education is vital to the future and it must be based upon an analytical study of anatomy and perspective . ’ |
| 16 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 17 | All I can say is that being called a sex symbol is better than being called a haddock . |
| 18 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
| 19 | All we can say is that logical , easily perceptible solutions are always preferable to enigmatic ones , which may have forms so difficult to perceive that to the listener they seem formless . |
| 20 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 21 | Well all I can say is that , erm Sir Simon was being extremely modest when he said that the development of this company er , has been due er , entirely to the executive directors . |
| 22 | All you can say is that natural selection selects for the reproductive success of individuals in their genes and some individuals have more reproductive success than others . |
| 23 | What we can say is that Caribbean usages have spread outwards beyond the Caribbean community itself , so that there are a number of expressions of Caribbean origin now in use in London both within and outside the black community . |
| 24 | Okay , so , I think what we can say is that agricultural trade in absolute terms has probably risen |
| 25 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |
| 26 | All I can say is this . |