Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |
| 2 | Hitherto reticent on the question of the inviolability of existing frontiers , not least for domestic political reasons , Kohl on this occasion apparently addressed the issue particularly of retaining the Oder-Neise line between the GDR and Poland , declaring : " I should like to say clearly : no responsible politician in the Federal Republic of Germany … is dreaming of a Germany on the " pan-Germanic model " . " |
| 3 | Sir , — I should like to say how much I agree with some of the sentiments expressed by Peter Cowan in your paper last week . |
| 4 | As a stepmother I should like to say how much I identified and sympathised with the writer of ‘ I Love Him But Not His Daughter ’ ( October GH ) . |
| 5 | I should like to say how grateful I was to the kind gentleman who pulled me clear . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 7 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 8 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 9 | ‘ You should have said earlier , ’ he complained . |
| 10 | Opps sorry I should have said more about Byrne . |
| 11 | In which case , he should have said so . |
| 12 | I shall be taken to implicate that he has only fourteen and no more because had he had twenty , then by the maxim of Quantity ( " say as much as is required " ) I should have said so . |
| 13 | If you only wanted two pages you should have said so , you could have said something like I only want two pages . |
| 14 | You should have said so and so could you come and do so and so love , my daughter 's now do Christmas for me |
| 15 | ‘ You should have said as much to him as he passed . ’ |
| 16 | After replacing the receiver I must have said aloud , ‘ Bloody bureaucratic bullies , ’ because I heard , over the racket the dogs were making , David 's voice . |
| 17 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 18 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 19 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 20 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 21 | The programme might have said more about technique — what , at plectrum level , made him tangibly different from the folk-group strummer - but was a thorough biography and survived the expressive limitations of rock anecdotage : ‘ His attack to a guitar was , oh , something else … ‘ |
| 22 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
| 23 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 24 | But I 'd like to say now , it 's a shame . |
| 25 | I 'd like to say how much I enjoy AIM , and though the Illustrator 's is printed so much smaller than the Artist 's , please always remember that there are would-be illustrators — drawing and painting graduates , who rely heavily on any information on illustration that your magazine provides . |
| 26 | I 'd like to say how much I enjoy AIM , and though the Illustrator 's is printed so much smaller than the Artist 's , please always remember that there are would-be illustrators — drawing and painting graduates , who rely heavily on any information on illustration that your magazine provides . |
| 27 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 28 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 29 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 30 | If you 'd have said please David I |