Example sentences of "say [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm |
| 2 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 3 | same leg , so erm , see Gary moans at me that I , he says that I eat too much erm salt , now if I was to eat that much salt I would n't get cramp |
| 4 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 6 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 7 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 8 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 9 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 10 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 11 | Because when that parcel came from Gwyneth you said that I think probably two thousand three hundred mini-bites in it . |
| 12 | I have to say that I regret deeply , deeply that I could not persuade her to make a film of Tosca . |
| 13 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 14 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 15 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 16 | I have to say that I look pretty damn good . |
| 17 | I am delighted to be able to say that I have just received notice from the Department of the Environment that Chorley is to be allocated an additional amount for doing up old housing — nearly £0.25 million . |
| 18 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 19 | I would like to say that I agree completely with him about the lack of tennis action on our TV screens . |
| 20 | I was very pleased to see your interview with Nick Bollettieri about Andre in your December/January issue , and I would also like to say that I agree totally with what the other people who wrote to you said about Andre . |
| 21 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 22 | I ca n't say that I 've even found cases with definite pathology needing to dilute more . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm quite disappointed by the sound of the amp — it 's just not there for me — although I would say that I 've always thought Trace Elliot had a kind of soul-less sound . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day . |
| 25 | So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds . |
| 26 | So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds . |
| 27 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 28 | Being on the side of the deer , let me say that I become steadily more dissatisfied with the anachronistic system of Highland estates and landownership . |
| 29 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 30 | I could n't say that I felt very well for that was n't quite true , but I certainly no longer felt ill . |