Example sentences of "he [modal v] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | An' 'e 'd say : ‘ Them books is n't for the likes o' you , Jack . |
| 2 | And looking back on it , when you think about his own experience — he 'd been Home Secretary , Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary — I think most of his Cabinet colleagues who served under him would say he was a better prime minister than he was a secretary of state in either of these three roles . |
| 3 | He may say he is all right when he is not . |
| 4 | Though he may say things to them that have no exact parallels in Scripture , his word does not contradict Scripture , neither does it have the same normative quality . |
| 5 | He he may say he may say head of creative creative head of create the creative department or head of erm . |
| 6 | He he may say he may say head of creative creative head of create the creative department or head of erm . |
| 7 | erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names |
| 8 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 9 | Don , knowing he should say something , managed ‘ The horse is crooked . ’ |
| 10 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 11 | He should say this because what his campaign needs is the idea that something new is going to come from re-electing the Tories — not just more of the same , however admirable that may be . |
| 12 | For if he should say ‘ I leave him this ’ or ‘ I commend ’ , because these are direct words , they can not have the place of a trust . |
| 13 | ‘ And if he is not prepared to fight , then he should say so but there is no point in lying to the people around him saying he can do the job if he really believes he ca n't . ’ |
| 14 | He wondered if there was anything he should say to them , if there was anything they could possibly understand . |
| 15 | She always gave as much as she got , more , he should say . |
| 16 | What he should say is ‘ I have several different kinds of logical object in my document . |
| 17 | He seemed to be weighing up what he should say next when Peter exclaimed , ‘ It 's so hard on Anna . |
| 18 | It simply shows that he wo n't adapt — and this again is very unusual — to the demands of different people or circumstances , that he wo n't say what some journalist thinks he should say , that Roger and Kris are wonderful and lovely and it would be a privilege to run with them . |
| 19 | Accordingly his choices of what he should say and do , and how and when , are his means to conserve and tap the sources of his power . |
| 20 | Why do you think he should say that ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , they were leisured days , ’ said Mark a little uncomfortably , feeling that he should say that things were ‘ better ’ now when great coachloads of people could whirl round the Italian lakes in an eight-day tour . |
| 22 | Indeed , it has been kept so secret that no summary or abstract of the review is to be made available — If the Secretary of State wants to say that he will publish the review so that the House can measure the current proposals against his madcap scheme for dismembering the inspectorate , he should say so now . |
| 23 | He should say , ’ It is not me you must persuade , Helmut , but the British people . |
| 24 | If Mr Major has changed his mind about the desirability of a classless society , he should say so . |
| 25 | He should say well no I ca n't think of anybody . |
| 26 | Slobo , that 's what he should say |
| 27 | Instead he fixed his eyes on his hands , which were clasped together on the desk , studying them as if the words he must say were written on his bony fingers . |
| 28 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 29 | It is not enough that a man should say that something shall not be done by the plaintiff ; he must say that nothing shall . ’ |
| 30 | If the plaintiff accepts a sum which takes a counterclaim into account , he must say so ( Ord 11 , r 3(6) ) . |