Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 6 | " No , " I 'd say with a mysterious air . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have horrendous fraudulent situations and I would say as an average week we have about ten of those . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This , surely , is much more like what we really would say in a normal conversation . |
| 14 | Finally he declared : All I can say as an honest person is that this boy is the greatest man now living in the world . |
| 15 | There is no precise moment or position at which one can say of a particular individual that the child has become an adult or that the man who was outside the house is now inside . |