Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A source who ought to know says that Unix System Laboratories has changed Destiny 's original Mac-like interface and made it look more like Windows : Sounds like a dumb move to us . |
| 2 | For the present , it must suffice to say that Eadmer 's report brings into Rufus 's reign a theme which is wholly lacking in Anselm 's letters , and we must ask whether Eadmer is not , here as elsewhere , reading back into Rufus 's reign the lessons which he and Anselm were to learn in the course of their joint exile . |
| 3 | Lastly , I should have said that entries close at 17.00 GMT on Fri 14th ( not 13th , as I said earlier ) . |
| 4 | He said he should have said that morning that if you looked at Dynmouth in one way you saw it prettily , with its tea-shops and lace ; and that if you looked at it in another way there was Timothy Gedge . |
| 5 | I should have said that beauty does n't matter , or something like that . ’ |
| 6 | They might have said that harm is not " actual " unless it is something beyond the trivial , for which a charge of common assault is adequate ; but they have not imposed even this degree of control . |
| 7 | Asked exactly how O took people home , you 'd have to say that O just summoned his men to him somehow . |
| 8 | I 'd have to say that Deuce was the most aggressive and distorted band around Washington , and that 's always been one of my attitudes : to be the most aggressive , no-holds-barred type of player that I can possibly be . ’ |
| 9 | I would like to say that Pegasus Farm was of vital strategic value to the war effort , but I can not . |
| 10 | It may not be a popular view , but I would dare to say that prisons are our most important , and also our most deficient , social service . |
| 11 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 12 | They 'd all have laughed , even Mr Blakey , and then quite abruptly Mrs Blakey would have said that Timothy Gedge deserved to be birched . |
| 13 | At worst we will have to say that Simon Cormack has been found murdered . |
| 14 | Erm we will continue to say that Harlow should have applied for designation years ago erm it 's very |