Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] say that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 2 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 3 | We might wish to say that any accountant would produce the same set of accounts from the same data . |
| 4 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , if anyone had asked me — and no one did , mind you — I 'd have said that several people had a reason to kill Newley . |
| 6 | Further to John Wildig 's interesting article in Journal No. 8 ‘ Railway Happenings in Mid-Wales ’ I would like to say that further semaphore signals can still be seen at Machynlleth , where they control movements in and out of the DMU stabling and Permanent Way depot along with the run-round loops , and also at Llanbrynmair where they control low flying jets and high flying gricers ! |
| 7 | Who now would dare to say that Standard English has any ultimate authority ? |
| 8 | I would have to say that social conditions have changed a great deal today , going back to what the first |
| 9 | For this reason , many in the seventeenth century would have said that such knowledge , together with knowledge of undoubted moral principles , such as that promises should be kept , is innate . |
| 10 | If we try to describe this process in structural terms we will have to say that this externalization of forces of control leads to a marked deterioration and dissolution of the superego and , to a lesser extent , of the ego too . |