Example sentences of "have said " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 2 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I should n't have said that . ’ |
| 4 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 5 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't have said that , ’ he went on . |
| 7 | ‘ You should have said earlier , ’ he complained . |
| 8 | Raskolnikov could never have said that — which introduces the deeper issues involved in the switch from first-person to a nominal thirdperson narrative . |
| 9 | And if Sonya was to have replied to him , what could she have said ? |
| 10 | I might also have said a nihilist . |
| 11 | Svidrigailov would never have said that ; he would have gone on making jokes about America . |
| 12 | Samuel Johnson might have said something similar , though in a very different idiom , about some accepted masterpiece of European literature . |
| 13 | This is what Pound could never have said . |
| 14 | The programme might have said more about technique — what , at plectrum level , made him tangibly different from the folk-group strummer - but was a thorough biography and survived the expressive limitations of rock anecdotage : ‘ His attack to a guitar was , oh , something else … ‘ |
| 15 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 16 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 17 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 18 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 19 | All this about Fenna was entirely true , but she would not have said it , would not have known how to shape such sentences . |
| 20 | ‘ You should n't have said that , Charlie . ’ |
| 21 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 22 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 23 | Perhaps I should not have said that . ’ |
| 24 | I had much I would have said to them . |
| 25 | Mr Ridley should have said he would learn from the failure of a consumer and credit-based boom , end the exclusive reliance on interest rates that so damaged the industries he was supposed to represent . |
| 26 | ‘ What could I have said ? |
| 27 | We could have just put the shutters up , but they 'd have said , ‘ yeah , we got the Pakis out . ’ |
| 28 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 29 | At least , Stanley Jones mentions in his deeply interesting new biography that doubts have been cast on the authenticity of the celebrated exit line , though without actually vouching for it he considers it just what Hazlitt would have said . |
| 30 | Four years ago , we would have said of blokes like Cathal Coughlan and Patrick Kane : pop needs more figures like them , spiky , striving , sussed . |