Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb mod] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little I can say . |
| 2 | Lewis said : ‘ I was n't at Yarmouth and there is little I can say . |
| 3 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 4 | But this I would say to you . |
| 5 | But this I may say , that it seems unworthy of you that you should be too angry over this affair . ’ |
| 6 | They do n't deserve fine furniture but , of course , when asked to do this I will say ‘ Of course , as you wish , sir ’ . |
| 7 | When my wife transcribes this she 'll say |
| 8 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 9 | But there are some who would say that there is now a contemporary form of false religion ( idolatry and superstition if you prefer ) in the veneration of such characters and their elevation to sainthood . |
| 10 | There are some who would say that his humour can be course and his language crude . |
| 11 | Ruether does not think in terms of a God who is transcendent above history and acts as an agent in history ; and this we might say lets her off the hook as far as the theodicy question is concerned . |
| 12 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 13 | This one will say : ‘ Please put telegram to Mr Barrymore into his own hand . |
| 14 | If he asked me such and such I 'd say now this is how you do it . |
| 15 | I spent most of my time — too much I would say now — on the secretarial agencies . |
| 16 | It was a sickeningly familiar story and there was not much I could say , apart from expressing regret and understanding . |
| 17 | Well I do n't like it very much I must say ! |
| 18 | But she was as , we were quite surprised how much she could say . |
| 19 | ‘ Beyond that there 's nothing much you can say . ’ |
| 20 | I mean on something like interruptions there 's only so much you can say . |
| 21 | ‘ Waal , ’ said the American , ‘ there was nothing much he could say , was there ? |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd think after all that that she 'd say what his lordship was actually doing in London . ’ |
| 23 | Nothing special about that you might say . |
| 24 | You could draw it like that you could say that this is the the war which cuts in this time of year line shifts up , |
| 25 | We might plan an outing or something with the whole staff — each one will say where they want to go and how to make it work . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps the most that one can say of the bureaucracy is that it is a force for inertia in public spending since , once created , agencies programmes and projects are very difficult to dismantle . |
| 27 | In practice if there are beneficiaries who are capable of being consulted , it 's likely that one will say to those beneficiaries Right we need to raise some money , there 's only the shares to do it with , we 're proposing to sell them do you agree with that or would you prefer to have the shares and gives us some money ? |
| 28 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 29 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |