Example sentences of "to say that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’ |
| 2 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 3 | He said , still with his back to her : ‘ It 's ridiculous to say that I forced you . |
| 4 | I received it , along with her idea for making a Christmas fairy , just in time for the festive season and I 'm pleased to say that I made my fairy thanks to Mrs Sall and the post office . |
| 5 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 6 | Er I just ringing through to say that I heard your er broadcast last week in respect of Carnfield Hall and I went on Saturday afternoon a gentleman named Hugh rang you up . |
| 7 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |
| 8 | I should like to say that I recognized his genius . |
| 9 | Evert added : ‘ I 'm not going to say that I stake my life on the fact that I 'm never going to play another tournament . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not going to say that I stake my life on the fact that I 'm never going to play another tournament . |
| 11 | I recall someone complaining about those little cartoon drawings of you lot , I would just like to say that I think they are very comical and nowadays virtually every computer magazine has them ( except for crappy ones like Amstrad Action ! ) . |
| 12 | That 's not to say that I think we made a mistake . |
| 13 | And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards . |
| 14 | I have to say that I find something quite extraordinary in the spectacle of an Opposition Front-Bench spokesman apparently complaining that we are to make a potential 400,000 pensioners better off . |
| 15 | ( Puff , puff ) I should just like to say that I find what Lord Boddy is saying extraordinarily interesting . |
| 16 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |