Example sentences of "[prep] i say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all very well for me to say cheerfully , ‘ Life begins at sixty . ’ |
| 2 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 3 | It only remains for me to say how much I look forward to welcoming you to the Craigendarroch Country Estate . |
| 4 | Even when I do agree with him , he makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to say so . ’ |
| 5 | It is undoubtedly heretical for me to say so , but I feel that , in a concert performance of the Suite No. 2 alone , these cuts greatly improve the score 's effectiveness . ’ |
| 6 | The idea of course the vision is to create a better union , not one that is exactly like us because er , difficult for me to say so , but we have got the occasional fault here and there . |
| 7 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 8 | She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really . |
| 9 | ‘ Well ma'am , there 's some scraps of food left over and … it 's bold of me to say so … but if it was going to be wasted I know my cousins would feel the benefit . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 11 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 12 | then again think what , what the hell is she gon na do with him and yet I keep saying to myself I should n't do it and then another bit of me saying why should n't I do it , why should n't I have |
| 13 | ‘ I just hope you do n't think it 's disrespectful of me saying so in the circumstances . ’ |
| 14 | But driver safety was far from being Jackie 's only hobby horse and the first thing I noticed about Jackie — and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me to say so — was his incredible garrulity . |
| 15 | He was started flirting with me saying how older women turn on . |
| 16 | I 'm sure you 'll expound without me saying any further . |
| 17 | As far as I 'm concerned , some of them are disgusting , but I do n't think it 's up to me to say so . |
| 18 | But I said to I said well you might get a free month but I said or you in March and then Ap supposedly April starts again . |
| 19 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |