Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 2 | Of course I would n't say anything — ’ |
| 3 | Of course I wo n't say anything about the money . ’ |
| 4 | And of course I wo n't say anything . |
| 5 | Of course I can only say from my own experience . |
| 6 | Yes , and they asked me what I was laughing at ; and of course I could n't say their son-in-law was so ugly , so I said : |
| 7 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 8 | From this pilot study I can not say yes or no , but what I can say is that this pilot study suggests that it will |
| 9 | ‘ AFTER running my own business and being my own boss I can definitely say I will never return to full-time employment again . ’ |
| 10 | And I recommend to anybody who goes on the school , I 'm sure they do on the training course , that the first opportunity I would have to address erm the con er the staff meeting , you just say this is what I who I am this is why I 'm here I 've got a list of businesses which the school has provided with me already but I I will I may erm if I bump into you in the corridor I may just say do you know anybody else . |
| 11 | And of course the , or driving part of the mill I would n't say they completely took over from steam . |
| 12 | ‘ In that case you ca n't say he 's deserted you . |
| 13 | But if you disagree with my assessment you 'll presumably say so . |
| 14 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 15 | ‘ He said he came because he could n't discuss it on the telephone , but whether he really wanted to see inside the Post I ca n't say . ’ |
| 16 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 17 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 18 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 19 | Jessop argues that this is highly unlikely and that in a crisis we can not say in advance whether the state — now divorced from any one-to-one relationship with the ruling class — will assist capital , labour or ( as seems to be the perennial case in Britain ) pursue policies to the mutual ruin of the contending classes . |
| 20 | I think if you 're talking about a very exclusive one up in town they might well say no smoking . |
| 21 | At the moment he could n't say more than that , but he was thinking about it . |
| 22 | Mr McNeil said , however , that given the CRE investigation he could not say if the education department had subsequently employed any bilingual educational psychologists or more interpreters . |
| 23 | the money that we save on on on the residential bit we could perhaps say , right then we 'll do that bit in four days . |
| 24 | If I was walking down a street and some scaffolding fell on my head I would n't say ‘ oh dear ’ . ' |
| 25 | In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point . |
| 26 | Whether the lust for gold had mastered us , whether a hatred of the thieves suffused our outlook , whether their attempts to thwart it had not toughened our resolve I can not say : but I know that after the bomb had been thrown into our midst , we would , one and all , have died in agony rather than let the treasure fall into the enemy 's hands . |
| 27 | They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it . |
| 28 | What will happen on a particular occasion we can not say , but we can predict that after a large number of photons have encountered the crystal a fraction unc will be found to have been transmitted . |
| 29 | Giggs is constantly compared to Best himself , but the former United hero said : ‘ One day they might even say I was another Ryan Giggs ! |
| 30 | As for my room , well , if I was Jimmy Page I would definitely say ‘ Too rococo ’ . |