Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say my daughter seems to have inherited them . |
| 2 | I must say your hotel is wonderful . |
| 3 | Introductions are important : you must say your name clearly and indicate your profession to the parents . |
| 4 | I am also very concerned should say my girth break or part of my bridle . |
| 5 | The others you might not have argued but , you know , you might say my experience is that it , I could do it in eighty percent of that time . |
| 6 | So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation . |
| 7 | You could say their success was based on the ‘ throw-up factor ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I could say my success bodes well for him , but I just do n't know . |
| 9 | I began to teach him to speak English , and soon he could say his name , ‘ Master ’ , and ‘ Yes ’ and ‘ No ’ . |
| 10 | That was how he 'd say her name , making it into something musical and wonderful , making it — |
| 11 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 12 | Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , I 'm sure it 's true because I 'd say my work on ‘ Keep The Faith ’ is my best playing on any Bon Jovi record to date . |
| 14 | I 'd say your father looks a different kettle of fish , Stephen , and is n't that the way to keep it ? |
| 15 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 16 | On Clinton 's plans to rescue the US economy , the president snarled : ‘ I guess you 'd say his plan really is Elvis economics . |
| 17 | I 'd say his will to live was extraordinary , it was more than staying alive . |
| 18 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd say his heart was never in it , but as the SS hanged him at Flossenburg concentration camp in April forty-five , we 'll never know . ’ |
| 20 | At least I 'd say his reasoning was good but the conclusions suspect . |
| 21 | ‘ Girls at school used to say their Professor could fix anything . |
| 22 | She gave up the branch chairmanship of the Civil and Public Servants union in 1990 after 10 years and said of her multi-purpose role : ‘ My husband used to say our lounge was like an office on Sunday nights when I was sorting through my paperwork for the week . ’ |
| 23 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 24 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 25 | For some farmers would say their mare was n't in foal you see . |
| 26 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
| 27 | He either would n't give me a line or would say my line himself . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 29 | ‘ For Tony Bland I suppose his parents would say his life is over , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Although Batty is my favourite player probably I would say his form is the least ‘ inspirational ’ , and yet I think his role is to be solid and dependable … so I reckon he is still doing his job and I also do nt see anyone doing it better . |