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 ?
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