Example sentences of "we [vb mod] say [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect .
2 I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions .
3 Erm we might say for example er that all of these gifts , you 've heard of the word grace ?
4 If we could say with certainty that they are , then , it seems , we would already know the answer to the problem as to the possibility of a numerical diversity of ontological existents .
5 Somehow I managed to remember that it will shortly be your birthday , so Many Happies , as we used to say at school .
6 Two hairs past a freckle we used to say in work er , school !
7 I think that the competition will continue to increase , I mean this is not an industry where one has a soft trick and a lie down as we used to say in shipbuilding , I mean it really is a grind and a slog , and I think it 's important for all of our employees to understand that er there never will come a point in time when we can say ‘ right we 've got that done , we can lie back ’ .
8 Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ .
9 Physics concerns what we can say about nature .
10 Physics concerns only what we can say about nature ’ .
11 It only allows us to evaluate moves to the north-east or the south-west in Figure 15–1 , but it is the most we can say about efficiency without becoming entangled in value judgements about equity .
12 We can say with confidence that God wo n't ask us to build an ark — because the story of the flood ends with a promise that there will never be such a deluge again .
13 All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now .
14 We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications .
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