Example sentences of "[modal v] say [pron] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I tell you what though , I must say there 's less water here since , she 's , she 's left in the garden because it used to lay here did n't it ? |
2 | He 'll say it 's all part of continual assessment : the whole point of the course is mass hysteria . |
3 | Then I suppose they 'll say it 's all management 's fault , and people will believe them . |
4 | You might say they are two levels of the same thing , like the high and low churches of Christianity . ’ |
5 | " You might say they are Indian beads , " the girl said . |
6 | Uncharitably , you might say they were middle-class people who have long since sold out and ceased to do anything about changing the world short of creating more personal angst for themselves . |
7 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
8 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
9 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
10 | You could say there 's some room for rationalisation , ’ says Nissan 's British importer . |
11 | Now you take all those , take Street and Street , they were all very respectable people and er I do n't think you could say there were any slums about at all as far as I can remember . |
12 | With all this yuppie rubbish at the moment , I 'd say it 's long hair , neat but sexy clothes , of course long nails , straight teeth , small nose , big eyes , shaved armpits and legs , nice perfume , and an independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient look about her . |
13 | Erm well I 'd say it 's curly sort of oh it 's dark hair , curlyish |
14 | Using that as a working theory , I 'd say there was some sort of time limit involved — I mean , a time during which it is imperative for people not to know that he 's dead , but a time that comes to an end , after which it does n't matter so much . " |
15 | I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’ |
16 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
17 | I would say it was three foot six . |
18 | erm So I would say there are critical areas of the world where erm the destruction of forest is becoming particularly serious , and that 's one of the areas I would particularly want to concentrate on , and possibly parts of Central America . |
19 | Some would say there 's poetic justice in all this . |
20 | I would say there were more men in important jobs in here than there is |
21 | ‘ No , if I wear a bright dress , people will say I 'm encouraging Mr Boldwood . |
22 | Farmers themselves will say there are better ways of controlling fox population . |
23 | But let's say there 's 10 times — no , 20 times — as much as you 've sent me : that would still only be 10 pages , and my Bible ( Old Testament only ) is 833 pages long . |
24 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
25 | He still tells the up-and-coming young pros in the US that if they can win in Britain , they can say they 're great golfers . |
26 | But I can say there are other things you can do . |
27 | ‘ Well you can say you 're visiting relatives or something . |