Example sentences of "say we [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law of averages says we 'll score a few . ’ |
| 2 | I tell Marie I 'd like some gloves cos I lost mine , and she says we 'll have a look and see if there 's any good cheap ones . |
| 3 | But Barry Ward says we should take a closer look at the East of England . |
| 4 | But on the question of competitive tendering I think mentioned by Mr which he says we should have a different attitude . |
| 5 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate . |
| 6 | ‘ If someone had said we would get a draw here , we would have been well happy . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 8 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 9 | Again I 've tried to tell her but he said , Geoff said we shall have a lovely time , we sha n't go short I said I know that ! |
| 10 | Erm year one once again we said we 'll make a loss of one point almost two million . |
| 11 | My mum and I voted my dad out and we said we 'll have a record player . |
| 12 | I said we 'll have a I think life is gon na change Ann . |
| 13 | I said we 'll have a barrel of Guinness ready by six okay no probs . |
| 14 | He said we 'll have a lump sum . |
| 15 | So I said wonder if they 've got that headboard for Ken , you know I did n't know he had one I said we 'll have a look and see how much they are . |
| 16 | So I said we 'll order a taxi , so we order a taxi . |
| 17 | ‘ As students at Edinburgh College of Art , we always said we would buy a castle and do it up , but when it came around to it most of them had been restored , but Lachlan knew of Ballone Castle near Portmahomack which was still derelict and persuaded the farmer to sell it . ’ |
| 18 | said we would get a mile B M W |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 21 | He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television |
| 22 | I said we 'd need a table of your own then |
| 23 | Was it not you yourself who said we should build a great dam against the floodwaters of Change ? ’ |
| 24 | Erm and I was going to say we will get a a boiled down version from with our materials for the campaign . |
| 25 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 26 | I must say we could do a lot worse than you . |