Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 2 | But I must say to the hon. Gentleman who suggests that it would be appropriate at present for this country to scrap its nuclear weapons and Trident that to do so would leave the country wholly defenceless . |
| 3 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 4 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 5 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 6 | There may well be a modest marble tombstone for Mr Dowd somewhere in Saratoga Springs ; but each time the television continuity announcer advertises a forthcoming programme as showing at ‘ 9 pm Eastern , 8 Central and Mountain ’ then one might say of the late Professor , si monumentum requiris , circumspice . |
| 7 | Can I Can I anticipate what er we might say in the bad taste bit then , did anybody think one was in in bad taste ? |
| 8 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 9 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 10 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 11 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 12 | " No , " I 'd say with a mysterious air . |
| 13 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 14 | These are the sort of things we 'd say to a good person in a formal situation , erm , you 're reliable , trustworthy , you know , we can rely on you to do a good job for us , doing your job well and with enthusiasm , when left in charge there 's been no problems , you 're responsible and flexible , you 're conscientious , I can trust you for , to do a good job and thank you for your contribution to the team . |
| 15 | " You take after your father , liking sex , " she 'd say in the regretful tone you might use for a hereditary disease . |
| 16 | I must admit , if I had if I actually had to say , which of all those would I be most happy not playing , I 'd say In the Bleak Midwinter , but |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm here to see Her Grace , ’ explained Joan , having rehearsed what she would say during the two-mile walk from Briar Cottage . |
| 18 | ‘ I would say to every ambitious and able young man who is choosing to make his career in industry : first , you must realise that the way to the top is something which has to be worked out with your employer , and although you have to fight your way up in the face of keen competition your employer is not one of your competitors but is just as keen that you should reach the top as you are . |
| 19 | It would destroy jobs , er all I would say to the honourable gentleman is that he will have noticed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer er used one of the announcements in his budget statement on the thirtieth of November last year er to announce that we shall be introducing a modern apprenticeship scheme . |
| 20 | With regard to having sympathy for them , I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I am one of them . |
| 21 | Right , now will let m l Let me ask you where you are going then as far as the Party 's own constitution is concerned , we saw a development , a significant development that I no doubt you would say at the Labour Party conference er er down in Brighton , but not withstanding O M O B the trade unions still have one third of the votes in the selection of the leader of the party , seventy percent say on policy matters at conference , there is still a trade union block vote . |
| 22 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 23 | But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd . |
| 24 | Well what I would say on the retail side of it , okay admittedly it 's not field sales it 's not cold calling |
| 25 | ‘ Remind me why I am going , ’ the minister would say on the outward aeroplane , and sometimes ‘ Remind me why I went ’ on the way back . |
| 26 | We have horrendous fraudulent situations and I would say as an average week we have about ten of those . |
| 27 | But the ground of the complaint would not be that the giraffe 's right to self determination was being thwarted , as we would say of a human being in a cage , but the general distaste at the conviction that the animal must be suffering severe discomfort . |
| 28 | You have to train people to become doctors or engineers or professors , and at the same time to train them in questioning all that — not only in a critical way , but I would say in a deconstructive way . |
| 29 | This , surely , is much more like what we really would say in a normal conversation . |
| 30 | to me and say look I agreed and I will say to the other forms that they 've go , they 've all got |