Example sentences of "[vb mod] say in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started losing mine when I was nineteen , and er I must say in answer to that gentleman 's |
| 2 | Erm Roosevelt was er despite the er rather unusual route to the presidency , really rather a good president but he had a , he had a very particular view of the presidency which was one which he shared with Lincoln but he took up Lincoln 's arguments and , and developed it further and I quote from er Roosevelt 's autobiography , which is rather more revealing than most autobiographies , erm Roosevelt was n't modest I should say in case you , if you wonder when I read you something . |
| 3 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , so I will do quite a lot of erm , stuff erm I should say in geography , sort of work in geography for that things . |
| 5 | I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions . |
| 6 | But there was nothing she could say in way of denial . |
| 7 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 8 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |
| 9 | So , as you 'd say in journalism , you 're a stringer . ’ |
| 10 | Or if they are there , they 're existing voluntary organisations which may be already very loaded , who 've got a lot of work to do , to get into a negotiating framework and so on , so the first the thing I 'd say in answer to you is that , N C V O and other must put a tremendous pressure on government and local authorities to fund the community development aspect of the pluralistic society which er , the current government seems to want . |
| 11 | Two hairs past a freckle we used to say in work er , school ! |
| 12 | I think that the competition will continue to increase , I mean this is not an industry where one has a soft trick and a lie down as we used to say in shipbuilding , I mean it really is a grind and a slog , and I think it 's important for all of our employees to understand that er there never will come a point in time when we can say ‘ right we 've got that done , we can lie back ’ . |
| 13 | So you used to say in business letters things like I should be grateful if . |
| 14 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 15 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 16 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 17 | All he would say in return was that he did n't think it was working out ! |
| 18 | ‘ Oh Jessie , she 's no good , ’ she would say in front of the poor , unfortunate Girl . |
| 19 | That is all I would say in conclusion . |
| 20 | ‘ Bloody love , ’ he would say in disgust when asked why he had not enjoyed the film . |
| 21 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 22 | You might find it helpful to plan what you will say in advance and to talk it over first with someone you trust and who already knows the situation . |
| 23 | I wonder what you will say in answer to this letter ; I shall await your reply with some anxiety , for if our letters go into the waste paper basket we shall be unable to continue our many services for the benefit of those who are blind . |
| 24 | What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session . |
| 25 | ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect . |
| 26 | Conspiring against almost everything ( one can say in retrospect ) were his exaggerated notions of his own divinely inspired relationship with the Iranian people . |
| 27 | Additionally , people who can say in advance that their income will be less than their tax allowances can register to receive their interest gross . |