Example sentences of "he might say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 2 | It was the social security man , and recognizing his voice I braced myself for what he might say . |
| 3 | He might say to the doctor , ‘ I do not wish to live as a helpless paralytic . |
| 4 | At a public meeting he might say something like this : |
| 5 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 6 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 7 | Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’ |
| 8 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience ! ’ he might say , with Claudius ( Hamlet , II.i.150 ) . |
| 10 | He might say that there was a convention relating to such actions or that he did something because it was expected of him . |
| 11 | ‘ Pony went well today , ’ he might say as they dismounted . |
| 12 | Surely , he might say , if we are to add clause 5 we should also add |
| 13 | He might say |
| 14 | I looked over at Jean-Claude , hoping he might say something . |
| 15 | he might say a few words inside the hut , and that |
| 16 | He might say now that he put his wife and child first ; he might even think it . |
| 17 | Not that , I think , anything he might say now would affect the case … ’ |
| 18 | In other words , what is really being " talked about " in existential propositions he might say , are not — not primarily , anyhow — any ontological objects and attributes of such objects , but knowledge , and the possibility of knowledge , of certain propositions . |
| 19 | He might say " Things are exactly as I said they are " . |
| 20 | Thus he might say : " All right , from now on I shall accept what you say . |
| 21 | ‘ He might say he 'd do it , but he would n't . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you need some pain relief , ’ he might say , immediately sowing the seeds of doubt in the woman 's mind . |
| 23 | He might say , as he constantly says , " Do n't worry , the market will provide . |
| 24 | Or what he might say to her … |
| 25 | He might say he had tried to telephone her , and this time she might believe him . |
| 26 | Well you do n't know I mean you do n't know , you might say right twenty grand and then he might say oh no I 've re-considered I want twenty two and then he might say I 'm not gon na turn up . |
| 27 | Well you do n't know I mean you do n't know , you might say right twenty grand and then he might say oh no I 've re-considered I want twenty two and then he might say I 'm not gon na turn up . |
| 28 | Yes he might do , he might say that , he might not |
| 29 | He might say he 'd like to speak to the guy first . |
| 30 | Because he might say : ‘ Yes , Mum , once or twice you did . |