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 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You should have said earlier , ’ he complained . |
| 6 | Opps sorry I should have said more about Byrne . |
| 7 | In which case , he should have said so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you only wanted two pages you should have said so , you could have said something like I only want two pages . |
| 10 | You should have said so and so could you come and do so and so love , my daughter 's now do Christmas for me |
| 11 | ‘ You should have said as much to him as he passed . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 15 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 16 | 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 … ‘ |
| 17 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I 'd like to say now , it 's a shame . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 23 | If you 'd have said please David I |
| 24 | But it was n't trash : I 'm sure that if he 'd had long enough , he 'd have said exactly what I wrote ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then they 'd have said so , surely ? ’ |
| 26 | Fabia went down to dinner that night and could n't help thinking that , even though it was certain that he was n't staying in the same hotel , or he 'd have said so , perhaps he might decide to have his dinner there . |
| 27 | No , I 'd have said clockwise . |
| 28 | I never either I 'd have said too . |
| 29 | ‘ The Pope and maybe a Guinness salesman , but otherwise I 'd have to say probably not . |
| 30 | ‘ I may have said too much . |