Example sentences of "[modal v] say at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common leave-taking , they used to say at school . |
| 2 | Somehow I managed to remember that it will shortly be your birthday , so Many Happies , as we used to say at school . |
| 3 | Remember what they used to say at Pontins . |
| 4 | ‘ You used to say at Talbothays that I was a pagan , do you remember ? ’ |
| 5 | Whatever the sufferer or family member may say at times of anger or despair , nobody causes addictive disease or can control it or cure it . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought a personal appeal to the Brotherhood for a relic for Shaftesbury Abbey would be much better than legal wrangling , and all I can say at present is that negotiations are going very well indeed , ’ said Mrs Rider last night . |
| 7 | All one can say at present is that though the process is difficult , time-consuming , and at times very unsatisfying , it is at least an improvement over those processes we have followed in the past . |