Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] say " in BNC.

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1 I 'd best say goodbye now , then , had n't I ? ’
2 Perhaps I 'd better say no for today , thank you all the same . ’
3 I was n't actually gon na say anything but I 'd better say a little bit .
4 Before you start to get excited about the prospect of having a brand new machine I 'd better say right now that not all machines are suitable .
5 ‘ Perhaps I 'd better say something to Jed . ’
6 ‘ Well , I 'd better say goodnight , ’ she said , when at last they called a halt .
7 ‘ I think I 'd better say that the Steering Committee did n't seem to believe I saw an inspector .
8 Erm if , if it means well , basically I 'd better say how many erm proposals are there for .
9 Striving hard for some normality , she pulled her head back and told him , ‘ I d-did n't say a word to anyone about — about us . ’
10 All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ .
11 Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ?
12 I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain .
13 So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’
14 I do not say an intellectual man can not follow the path .
15 I do not say that .
16 I do not say , either , that these rights and duties should be tied into one package , that if a young person wants to assume any of them , he must assume them all .
17 I do not say it will happen , I am just telling you . ’
18 I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be .
19 I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be .
20 I do not say this on the basis that I consider her approach irrational .
21 I do not say this to just anyone , it would not be correct to do so .
22 " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands .
23 I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else .
24 It was impossible to imagine a people — ; I do not say a government — with less relish for war , if my contacts with the Italian colonists and equally with the Italian army were any guide .
25 I do not say that in order to condemn the people who work in those industries .
26 All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars .
27 I do not say that to score a cheap point .
28 I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power .
29 I do not say that in party-political terms , because the Government 's objective is the same as mine .
30 An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council .
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