Example sentences of "[pers pn] want to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 2 | I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic . |
| 3 | For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . |
| 4 | I 'm told that the television is on most of the time in my house — the police can detect it — and I want to say something to Liam , if he 's watching . ’ |
| 5 | I want to say to her : my needs are not small , I have the same needs as you , I have the same needs as everyone else ! |
| 6 | Sometimes I wear things that do n't conform because I want to say to people : I do n't want to be the way you want me to be . |
| 7 | I think it 's what I 'm aiming for , what I want to say about myself . ’ |
| 8 | There 's nothing I want to say about it . ’ |
| 9 | There 's something definite I want to say , but I ca n't get it out and you wo n't help me . ’ |
| 10 | I want to say to them , when they talk like that , well , where do you go in the evenings ? |
| 11 | She misses you Elsie and sometimes I want to say to her she can not miss you more than I do . |
| 12 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 13 | Finally , I want to say a few words about the problems with our present laws , especially in relation to welfare . |
| 14 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |
| 15 | ‘ Alison , there 's something I want to say to you . ’ |
| 16 | I want to say something unutterable . |
| 17 | I want to say , ‘ One day God decided that he needed to crap and you , Gabriel , came into the world . ’ |
| 18 | I feel I can encapsulate the feeling in the music and then say what I want to say in a direct manner . |
| 19 | It was over finance in the end , but that 's all I want to say for now on that matter . |
| 20 | Sometimes he finds it hard to understand what I want to say , but he does n't mind how long he waits while I repeat it , and he always understands in the end . |
| 21 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 22 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to say something without interruption . |
| 24 | Jeffery Griffin , the 53rd person executed in Texas since capital punishment was restored in 1982 , said : ‘ I want to say 'bye to my fiancee Regina in England . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I want to say , ‘ Please do n't go elsewhere . |
| 26 | I see people now in the same situation as I was before , unable to meet anyone , and they do n't feel they can do anything about it , and I want to say ‘ Yes you can ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know what I want to say but I am not a millionaire and can not afford to see my family dragged into that kind of thing , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think I want to say it , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you say ‘ I want to say alive ’ ? ’ |
| 30 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |