Example sentences of "[vb mod] say the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I should say the average family was around about four , four mark , four and five children mark . |
| 2 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |
| 3 | You could say the only form of comfort I 've got are my complaints ; I 'm forever complaining about my complaints . |
| 4 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 5 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 6 | If cornered into making a decision , then I 'd say the obvious star of this threesome has to be the Japanese SB405 . |
| 7 | I dare say the slippery bastard had a good reason . |
| 8 | As the sun rose into clear skies and burned down on the plain of the Forth , you would say the exposed army opposite would have the worst of it , despite their shields and their awnings . |
| 9 | ‘ I would say the overwhelming influence on my artistic interpretation of the world has been my early training as a sculptor . |
| 10 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 11 | But some would say the whole edifice — a major restructuring and new culture for SSDs — has been build on a shoe-string . |
| 12 | She was silent , afraid she would say the wrong thing , watching him , this man-boy , her curiosity aroused , her sympathies awoken . |
| 13 | In short , George — a strong disciplinarian — will say the whole business is getting too high profile and must stop … |
| 14 | And let's say the maximum number of engines we can ever have will be up to about twenty five . |
| 15 | Guy 's senior dietician , Karen Sorensen , said : ‘ You may say the dietary director refused to comment . ’ |
| 16 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 17 | And then we can say the actual amount that we 're gon na collect is and just hand write it . |
| 18 | I can say the odd word , but I ca n't string a sentence together yet . |
| 19 | we say something like , Y maps to the positive or you can say the negative square root . |
| 20 | ‘ That is why I can say the only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
| 21 | While I ca n't give a cause of death at this stage , I can say the dead man had suffered a number of lacerations about his face and body and a stab wound to his side . |
| 22 | When they are certain , not just guessing , they can say the whole word : church . |
| 23 | But , having said that , it is not or was not an issue at the forefront of British politics and in a sense you can say the whole nation was guilty in that way . |