Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Where would the case actually s where would it go to , I mean say when you 've got all the evidence ?
2 I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing ,
3 When we got home , I tried to say as much , but Father would n't listen to me .
4 I tried to say perhaps this was not possible as we did not know what was outside the car park , walls , buildings .
5 For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views .
6 erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection .
7 ‘ Before you call me all the names you can think of , and before you demand to know what I think I 'm doing , I want to say how lovely you look ; your dress is exquisite , but no more than you are .
8 But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised .
9 What I want to say now is that you are my mum and you feel like my mum again .
10 I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare .
11 And I think that 's probably about as much as I want to say actually about the news the news interviews .
12 So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then .
13 But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this
14 Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you .
15 I 'd said warily , expecting Lorne or Meadowbrook or Frank the Phone .
16 Now if I 'd said how about if you had erm sixty add sixty do you think you could do that ?
17 What am I going to say now ?
18 Erm , what was I going to say now ?
19 Which , I forbear to say out loud , is more than can be said for you , spook .
20 I mean , Ziggy really said as much as I meant to say all along .
21 Well I meant to say back to the house , I meant to say .
22 Oh go on then , I keep saying just a small bit .
23 I know I keep saying never mind , never mind .
24 I do say so . ’
25 ‘ Hmmnn , even if I do say so myself , that is quite some job .
26 I do say so . ’
27 A job well done , if I do say so myself . ’
28 I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself .
29 She 's a great ship , and we 've got a pretty good medical team , even though I do say so myself .
30 Yeah , but yeah I do say so !
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