Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say to those of you who tend we had nice interview |
| 2 | I must say to Conservative Members who are raising points of order of this kind that it is a dangerous game . |
| 3 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 4 | I must say at this point that all the controls have a nice , rubberised feel to them , although they may be slightly on the flimsy side for any serious , rough handling . |
| 5 | Everybody ( and I must say at this point all participants were over the age of 16 , the legal age of drinking in Germany ) got very mellow and slept well . |
| 6 | I did n't want his title or his money , although I must say in all honesty I did enjoy the London season . |
| 7 | I must say in that sense , thank you Mr for your question , because it 's an an issue that 's conc should concern every member of this authority . |
| 8 | And I should say on that topic that we looked prior to this E I P at the implications for sharing of the paper that er Miss put before you in her personal capacity . |
| 9 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 10 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 11 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 12 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 13 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 14 | But I think the way that that would occur would be first of all I would expect to see an increase , a steeper increase than is already project I should say in concealed households . |
| 15 | The sign should n't say anything about the roads , instead it should say in huge luminous letters : ‘ Island People Are Different ’ . |
| 16 | degree of light I should say from that street lighting , but not an awful lot . |
| 17 | For truly , I say to you , if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed , you 'll say to this mountain , move from here to there , and it 'll move , and nothing 'll be impossible . |
| 18 | While at the same time we might say of all of us that God in Christ took on a humanity which , with him , we share . |
| 19 | Moreover , it is one of the founding presuppositions of sociology , one might say of social science more generally , that individuals are related to each other rather than isolated . |
| 20 | One might say with little exaggeration that in this view the progress of science made philosophy redundant , except as a sort of intellectual laboratory assistant to the scientist . |
| 21 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 22 | Whatever anyone might say about private companies , they do not have a social responsibility . |
| 23 | And one might one might say in six , erm perhaps not avoid but minimize the best and most versatile land in accordance with the provisions of P P G seven . |
| 24 | Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits , and how little she might mean it ? |
| 25 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 26 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 27 | There was no more we could say to each other except through the damned lawyers . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ She 's very beautiful , ’ was all that McAllister could say to that . |
| 29 | But who could say for certain ? |
| 30 | Who could say for sure ? |