Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think I can say I walked the best part of the rivers in my district . ’ |
| 2 | I must say I had a big shock when I married Nick . |
| 3 | I 'll say I had an anonymous tip-off . ’ |
| 4 | No , I would say I want the same school , you can do with me what you like , Paul I suggest you do n't throw that away before I loose my temper with you . |
| 5 | Oh I was gon na say I bought a variable speed trigger for mine cos its back up it erm |
| 6 | I can say I have a great relationship with both my parents — individually . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm capable of being tempted by a desirable woman — though I must say I have no present intention of succumbing to that temptation . ’ |
| 8 | And I ca n't say I have the slightest sympathy for them , and I would also guess that you were one of those caught with their financial trousers down . ’ |
| 9 | In fact let's say you hired a small engineering company , and I manufactured widgets , and I needed to manufacture one thousand widgets a week by four o'clock on Friday . |
| 10 | I was just gon na say you got a purple tint in your hair but I can see what it is now ! |
| 11 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 12 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 13 | As far as the exceptions to the policy is concerned , we , again I I would n't say we had a strong feeling on this , but on balance I think it that if it is considered that they are needed they would probably be better dealt with in a separate policy . |
| 14 | but similar change of causation , restrictions imposed by of which they are members and which they are party and we would say we had the same defence to the extent that they had written business which would not of been risen if the restrictions had not been made |
| 15 | And without knowing why the burglars entered that ritzy complex on the Potomac river , we ca n't safely say we know the other Ws all that intimately . |
| 16 | Let's say we earned a thousand pounds commission on one case , and I had to make one hundred calls to earn , to get that one sale . |
| 17 | What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help . |
| 18 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 19 | Yet this is the very time we ask teenagers to make career choices , which may partly explain the findings that by age 35 over 60 per cent of men and women will say they chose the wrong career . |
| 20 | Before you reach for your collecting tins let me say they develop a good wheeze of taking in gullible Western guests and faking a few midnight tiger sightings with the aid of a collection of clockwork beasts and some carefully concealed tapes . |
| 21 | And I suggest libraries and museums , because I dare say they have the greatest experience in information co-ordination systems erm , within the , within the council , and I think , er , and of course they 're highly involved out in the community . |
| 22 | Some might say it presents an idealistic picture of family life ; others that it is a reactionary attempt to turn the clock back on the women 's movement ; yet others might argue that she has gone beyond the available evidence in concluding , or at least implying , that delinquency might result from early day-care experiences . |
| 23 | ‘ IBM will say it has the same API everywhere , and that users can retain code ’ , he says , ‘ But it 's not promising that it will work unchanged ’ . |
| 24 | I 'd say he had a little smile , to himself , when he heard the score from Highbury |
| 25 | Let's say he wants a managed fund . |
| 26 | ‘ Because I should say he has a powerful effect on you . |
| 27 | You may say he has an intimidating record . |