Example sentences of "would say [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We have horrendous fraudulent situations and I would say as an average week we have about ten of those .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 This , surely , is much more like what we really would say in a normal conversation .
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