Example sentences of "i say " in BNC.
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1 | Shall I say I saw you ? he asked . |
2 | ‘ Oh , did n't I say ? |
3 | ‘ Oh , did n't I say , Mr Tyler ? |
4 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Francis , ‘ or should I say Ms. Razorblades , could we attempt lunch ? ’ |
5 | Dare I say give it up ? |
6 | ‘ Did I say a Stewart ? |
7 | What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance ? |
8 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
9 | ‘ Yes , Piper , fish , freshly caught , or should I say blown out of the water ! ’ |
10 | Dare I say , as a once member of One Nation , that the world wants to know if Britain dare make Change its Ally ? |
11 | Shall I say what the Muse is waiting for now ? |
12 | Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance . |
13 | ‘ Did I say cruel ? |
14 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
15 | Drawing nervously on his cigarette , a uniformed guard said : ‘ What shall I say ? |
16 | Jean-Paul Riopelle 's encrusted abstraction is — what can I say ? — promising , and there are standard works by Poliakoff , Georges Mathieu , Hans Hartung ( who died only last week ) and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva . |
17 | What indeed can I say . |
18 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
19 | No responsible Christian or , dare I say , responsible humanist could possibly endorse that view , however . |
20 | A far better story and , dare I say it , a more Christian understanding ‘ comes from my second illustration . |
21 | ‘ What did I say ? |
22 | Did n't I say who it was , at the beginning ? — It was that good-looking lad . |
23 | Joyce used to take Luke , but people kept stopping her to admire him and generally go gooey over what a beautiful specimen he was — or should I say ‘ is ’ . |
24 | First , can I say congratulations on reaching your tenth anniversary . |
25 | ‘ What do I say to your father if I mislay you ? ’ |
26 | Many of the other holes present similar hazards , and because of this , dare I say , there will be a good deal of conservative golf played this week , with players being forced to play into the safer , flatter parts of the green . |
27 | The Emperor would have been saddened to know that Bismarck 's manoeuvring had deceived Queen Victoria , who wrote to her daughter , the Crown Princess of Prussia , about ‘ … the unjustifiable conduct of the French … and need I say what I feel ? |
28 | ‘ What can I say ? |
29 | How can I say more than this ? |
30 | ‘ Did I say that ? |