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 . |