Example sentences of "say you [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decide to buy it by post and say you will send a cheque , SEND IT . |
| 2 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 3 | Doctor Staples says you may take a turn on the walks from now on . |
| 4 | To get the bast value for money in terms of advice and information , Professor Malcolm Hollis , spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS ) , says you should ask a surveyor to cover various points , with price guidance for each one . |
| 5 | This bloke says he wants four or five other vans by the end of next year and he says if you can get your driving lessons all done and passed he says you can take a van out on your own and have someone working under you I 'd , like you work under me . |
| 6 | No one says you could train a monkey to use it ; but ‘ you could train a very unintelligent operative ’ . |
| 7 | Richard Buckley , a retired funeral director stated , ‘ Nothing says you must have a funeral director to carry out a funeral — nothing says you have to take a body to the crematorium in a hearse . |
| 8 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 9 | Obviously it could be done ; I 'm just saying you 'd need a pretty controlled and sophisticated setup to achieve consistency and accuracy . |
| 10 | I guess that 's fairly unusual , because travel agents in the past have n't spent money saying you can book a holiday at your travel agent , but erm we 've had a pretty high spend and backed up by window point of serve , so we have messages in our shop windows that you can buy a British holiday at Lunn Poly . |
| 11 | That 's what she said , she said you 'll want a |
| 12 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 13 | If the Iraqis oppose the landing in contravention of the latest U N Security Council resolution demanding re-supply of diplomats , then the official said you would have a classic pretext for war . |
| 14 | ‘ But you said you 'd stay a week , ’ said Perdita in horror . |
| 15 | Just stick to your argument that the dealer said you 'd make a certain profit . |
| 16 | Right you you said you 'd prefer a white head rail did n't you ? |
| 17 | ‘ You said you 'd read a lot about them . ’ |
| 18 | She said you 'd need a little break after all this bother . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You said you 'd have a room prepared for me , Nicolo . |
| 20 | So anyway she comes along into the dark pet and she said oh heck she said you must have a power cut along here I ca n't see nothing |
| 21 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 22 | Jack said you could hide a small army in the various wardrobes around the house . |
| 23 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 24 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
| 25 | And I said , what you on about ? , he said if I do , if I do n't pay out two hundred and odd pound now that left for our tickets he said , I 've only hundred and odd come in , he said you can have a drink on the rest ! |
| 26 | Cos it was while he was phoning , you know the , the boy said you can get a telephone qu er a special telephone fitted . |
| 27 | So instead of dealing with sort of high trying to push everything So if you bring your voltage down from two forty volts to say you could get a a transformer , a battery eliminator , for a tape recorder . |
| 28 | They used to say you can tell a man by the shoes he wears . |
| 29 | If you wanted to have something erm larger than that then I 'm e I am empowered to say you can have a trade stand at half price . |
| 30 | The spelling can be given , and you ( or a pupil ) can ask how it should be pronounced , e.g. @how would you say You can ask a pupil to give similar real words to support a particular pronunciation , e.g. sawk could be associated with law , saw , squawk , etc . |