Example sentences of "say we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never say we would n't bring him back . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly say we would n't want |
| 3 | ‘ Yet , they say we would n't be interested in it here . |
| 4 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 5 | Oh , we say we wo n't , but we will . |
| 6 | But doctors say we 'll never be a healthy nation until we start to deal with the problems of teenagers . |
| 7 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 8 | I think for me , one of the main questions is how we enter into joint activity with the British Labour Movement , or do we just turn our backs on it and say we ca n't do it , they are too racist , they are too imperialist . |
| 9 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 10 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 11 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |
| 12 | ‘ But I ca n't agree with the prophets of doom who say we will never qualify for the World Cup finals again . |
| 13 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 14 | Well h we 'll have two a day I think that 's if you say we can great I mean |
| 15 | Are you going to , when you do your care packages say we can only award so much , we 'll have to reduce it , arbitrarily ? |
| 16 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 17 | He says we ca n't until we 're properly married in the eyes of God as well as man ; he says it 's worth waiting for . |
| 18 | He says we ca n't get our hands on exact diagnoses but we have got an advance party in Sarajevo so hopefully we will get something back from them . |
| 19 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 20 | He says we would n't have had the chateau and the big garden to play in . |
| 21 | But one side says we should n't talk about it and the other talks too much . |
| 22 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 23 | Ooh he says we can only pay you your travelling expenses . |
| 24 | Oh he says we could n't do that he says that now , he says I could n't get that done for you . |
| 25 | She says we could n't help but remember the sort of thumping speeches |
| 26 | He says we could not approve his application . |
| 27 | he says we could either put it forward because the windows are obviously a lot wider |
| 28 | ‘ We 've never said we would n't carry on , ’ Peter says . |
| 29 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |