Example sentences of "[pron] 'd say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 2 | ‘ It will mean tests , of course , but from his appearance and what Catlett described , I 'd say cyanide . |
| 3 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 4 | If my lips had words for the wondrous feeling of your breasts and nipples I 'd say them . |
| 5 | Man , if it was his own home , I 'd say the man was really comfortable ! ’ |
| 6 | I do n't have that much brains , but I 'd say I had good common sense . |
| 7 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 8 | I 'd say , it 's the only one we 've got and we 're not getting any more . |
| 9 | The waiting silence was broken by , ‘ I 'd say the train is leaving Carrick now , ’ and they all went to the fields behind the house to catch a glimpse of the train as it passed . |
| 10 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 11 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 12 | I 'd say you could put a lot of the abuse down to drink , though anyone with a black face was in trouble in Golcar that Saturday night . ’ |
| 13 | I was n't gay , and when somebody asked me I 'd say , ‘ No , I 'm not ’ , which was the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd say so . |
| 15 | He was always loaded , so I 'd say , ‘ Okay , sure , Seth . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd say , ‘ Bullshit . |
| 17 | The nearest taste to heaven , I 'd say , ’ said Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 18 | ‘ All that good food you been getting , it 's gone to your head , I 'd say . |
| 19 | In fact I 'd say we 're worse off than what we was at the start of it . |
| 20 | Ripe and ready for removal , I 'd say and not a minute too soon . |
| 21 | — But from the look of that bedroom , I 'd say he was a right maniac . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ A brand new one , I 'd say . ’ |
| 23 | With all this yuppie rubbish at the moment , I 'd say it 's long hair , neat but sexy clothes , of course long nails , straight teeth , small nose , big eyes , shaved armpits and legs , nice perfume , and an independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient look about her . |
| 24 | I 'd say I was happy with the way I look 90 per cent of the time ; I ca n't imagine myself any other way . |
| 25 | ‘ The latter , I 'd say . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I 'd say perhaps Harry 's sunglasses and pen and belt were with Angela Brickell because she took them there herself . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 28 | I 'd say it was an attempt to confirm Harry 's guilt that went disastrously wrong , leaving you with bristling new doubts and a whole lot more to investigate . ’ |
| 29 | The rest of their game is colourful — Mediterranean , I 'd say . ’ |
| 30 | They 're magnificent , and if all their people were like them , I 'd say Home Rule for India ‘ ek dum ’ ! |