Example sentences of "say you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 They say you could borrow the Walkman ?
32 very good , yeah , I say you could borrow my printer again , but that 's , that packed up you know
33 Whilst you might use these behaviours and through them create an impression of being genuine , it will , of course , quickly be destroyed unless you do what you say you will do .
34 Say you will protect me , Jacques .
35 Say you will marry me , and earn your place in heaven ! ’
36 If you decide to buy it by post and say you will send a cheque , SEND IT .
37 But you will relate it , cos no matter what they say you will relate it .
38 But please say you will forgive me .
39 I say you will live one day like a duchess , because this is what you deserve .
40 And I say to your father , I say you will kill 'er !
41 Please say you will come ! ’
42 What if I say you can do what you like with my son ?
43 ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands .
44 They say you can twist statistics to back up any viewpoint , but you can not argue with that record .
45 ‘ You say you can move mountains .
46 The new rules say you can drop your worst two results but the title will still go to the rider who is the most consistent .
47 ‘ But you say you can go safely in and out of it ? ’
48 But , as you say you can use this
49 ‘ You say you can remember that photograph being taken .
50 Best alternatives for holidaying dog owners have traditionally been kindly neighbours or kennels , but a York-based hotel chain say you can take it with you ( your pup , that is ) .
51 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
52 I mean , the Anaglypta we 're painting looks lovely , but as I say you can re-paint it as it goes
53 I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by .
54 Say you can buy them films if you want
55 So when you say you used to go up to the pool .
56 And as I say you used to have to erm children used to hav well the elder children had to give a turn with the mangling .
57 You did n't consider that , you er i As I say you 'd go out in the morning .
58 So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza .
59 The customers say you 'd have to be a detective to make sense of it .
60 What you might do , although I say you 'd reject this particular model and that
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