Example sentences of "would say [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is rather naughty , you know , my lord , ’ he would say into the phone ; ‘ I shall be coming after you with a big stick if the copy 's not here by tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm here to see Her Grace , ’ explained Joan , having rehearsed what she would say during the two-mile walk from Briar Cottage . |
| 3 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 4 | It was an incentive I would say for the shop stewards . |
| 5 | What Baden Powell would say to a rap anthem , one can only guess at . |
| 6 | Well it er I was very it 's not a stately home it 's the equivalent I would say to a sort of erm lower landed gentry upper er working class sort of place . |
| 7 | ‘ I would say to every ambitious and able young man who is choosing to make his career in industry : first , you must realise that the way to the top is something which has to be worked out with your employer , and although you have to fight your way up in the face of keen competition your employer is not one of your competitors but is just as keen that you should reach the top as you are . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't seem to have it , ’ Mr Crangle would say to the boy as they returned to his desk to find the book lying there , waiting for them . |
| 9 | ‘ Basically , ’ he would say to the camera , his gestures as urgent and incisive as those of any other citizen laying down the law on television , basically I 'm a very passionate man . |
| 10 | With regard to having sympathy for them , I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I am one of them . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the rules inspector would come in next and the rules inspector would say to the guy how many rules policies are and you say oh G A inspector and to every one he actually gained in fact it was n't there was no commitment there at all get rid of people . |
| 12 | It would destroy jobs , er all I would say to the honourable gentleman is that he will have noticed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer er used one of the announcements in his budget statement on the thirtieth of November last year er to announce that we shall be introducing a modern apprenticeship scheme . |
| 13 | I would say to the people of the Yorkshire Dales that the problem has not gone away , and this time should be used to write to British Rail and British Steel , and to call upon local authorities to get together to retain this line and to stop heavy lorries disrupting in the Dales . |
| 14 | I would say to the queen what I say to you . |
| 15 | Right , now will let m l Let me ask you where you are going then as far as the Party 's own constitution is concerned , we saw a development , a significant development that I no doubt you would say at the Labour Party conference er er down in Brighton , but not withstanding O M O B the trade unions still have one third of the votes in the selection of the leader of the party , seventy percent say on policy matters at conference , there is still a trade union block vote . |
| 16 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 17 | Now , well now it 's just now we 've got nobody who , who score actually really scores goals except Thomas I would say at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm fond of old Jack , I would n't want him to be hurt , ’ she would say with a sigh when we discussed the difficulties of meeting her current lover without Jack finding out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Remind me why I am going , ’ the minister would say on the outward aeroplane , and sometimes ‘ Remind me why I went ’ on the way back . |
| 21 | " This is T. S. Eliot here , " he would say on the telephone ; it was an instrument he detested and when using it his voice had " a curiously strangled sound " . |
| 22 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 23 | Well what I would say on the retail side of it , okay admittedly it 's not field sales it 's not cold calling |
| 24 | Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation . |
| 25 | We have horrendous fraudulent situations and I would say as an average week we have about ten of those . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But , it is said , we would say of the bar 's coming out that it was an effect , and in particular the effect of putting in the coin . |
| 28 | I would say of the three brothers , I was the one that was least interested in engineering . |
| 29 | I may have minority tastes , but I came here to find out what the right hon. and learned Gentleman would say about the autumn statement . |
| 30 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |