Example sentences of "[adv] i [modal v] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I would say |
| 2 | But then you get on hand experience right hands on I should say , not on hand |
| 3 | Hands on I should say , not on-hand . |
| 4 | De Glanville though spending some time here at Halling , was a much travelled man , rather I should say kept continuously on the run for these were most troubled times and towards the latter part of his life an interdict was placed on the country and it is recorded he was buried without a service . |
| 5 | He 's our lead singer , or rather I should say he was . |
| 6 | ‘ Not much I can say to that , is there ? ’ she managed bravely , wishing desperately that he would straighten up and go his merry way . |
| 7 | As I have already intimated , I have strong reservations about billing any application as ‘ the best ’ , but this much I can say . |
| 8 | ‘ If they 're not respectful enough I shall say ‘ Down on your knees ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Fair enough I must say I 'd have given it to Whitlow myself but it does n't really matter as far a Leicester fans are concerned as long as they can hold on here for another two minutes now . |
| 10 | But only I can say I did n't know before , I thought I was happy . |
| 11 | And for that reason alone I would say that erm Policy E two is necessary and should be included . |
| 12 | Perhaps I might say that the problems with RECHAR , the Government consider , are entirely in the court of the European Commission . |
| 13 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 14 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 15 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 16 | Or perhaps I should say , a player and a half . |
| 17 | The handmaidens of the Queen of Beauty — servants , perhaps I should say , since many of them are men — know their own power . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should say no more . |
| 19 | Or perhaps I should say : she forbore from actually striking . |
| 20 | Or perhaps I should say , a story . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're working with publishers on customising , or perhaps I should say ‘ Dillonising ’ , point of sale material , ’ said David Mutton of Dillons . |
| 22 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 23 | ‘ Then perhaps I should say something , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we have had two deaths , so why not two love affairs — or , perhaps I should say , flirtations ? ’ |
| 25 | Or perhaps I should say that Mike went to Bracken Cottage while you and I were in Bruges . |
| 26 | But only those who know me very well call me Fen , and I do n't know you from Adam — or perhaps I should say Eve . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Good morning , Robbie , ’ he drawled , ‘ or perhaps I should say good afternoon . ’ |
| 28 | They will call us citizens but we will be something less , perhaps I should say they do call us citizens but we are something less . ’ |
| 29 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 30 | Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text . |