Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [art] [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 | I 'll say a quiet good-bye to your mother and father and perhaps you would explain to Sandra and tell Matthew when you come back . " |
| 4 | We 'll say a little prayer for your baby , shall we ? ’ |
| 5 | Elizabeth took no part in this discussion and Lydia wondered whether it was her imagination or whether Elizabeth had the air of someone who could say a great deal if she chose . |
| 6 | So I have a certain interest , you could say a certain responsibility . " |
| 7 | You could say the only form of comfort I 've got are my complaints ; I 'm forever complaining about my complaints . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 10 | Er I 'd say a wide range . |
| 11 | If cornered into making a decision , then I 'd say the obvious star of this threesome has to be the Japanese SB405 . |
| 12 | I dare say the slippery bastard had a good reason . |
| 13 | I desired you and — how shall we put it — I am as they used to say a little bit priapic . ’ |
| 14 | And she used to say a big head |
| 15 | Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one . |
| 16 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 17 | So was Dr Carrington exerting a right — some would say a fundamental right — to self-determination , or was he capitulating under the weight of an intolerable burden ? |
| 18 | We have a wonderful capacity , some would say an over-developed capacity , to project ourselves into other beings . |
| 19 | I left led I would say an uneventful life , but I 've been very happy you know , ups and downs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I would say the overwhelming influence on my artistic interpretation of the world has been my early training as a sculptor . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But some would say the whole edifice — a major restructuring and new culture for SSDs — has been build on a shoe-string . |
| 24 | She was silent , afraid she would say the wrong thing , watching him , this man-boy , her curiosity aroused , her sympathies awoken . |
| 25 | In short , George — a strong disciplinarian — will say the whole business is getting too high profile and must stop … |
| 26 | Well , maybe double chin is a little unfair : let's say a mere jowlswipe of pork tenderloin . |
| 27 | And let me illustrate that in a context let's say a local radio station . |
| 28 | Let's say an Upper School boy , doing what might turn out to be a six week long project , he will mark it at the end of every session , well not mark it but assess it — which is slightly different — and staple little bits of paper on it with comments and suggestions , and so on . |
| 29 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 30 | And let's say the maximum number of engines we can ever have will be up to about twenty five . |