Example sentences of "[noun sg] would say " in BNC.

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1 Ninagawa would say . ’
2 Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink .
3 ‘ The common denominators in all these factors , as a mathematician would say , are Dacourt and Millet but , first , we do n't know for certain if the wine sent to the Abbe Gerard was in fact the same he was drinking the night he died .
4 Another very important principle also is that these erm the relationship between the ultimate good — G I call it — and these subordinate ones is non-linear as a mathematician would say , that is that nearly every virtue becomes a vice if you have too much of it , you see .
5 I wish you would be a neat clag as my granddad would say
6 The priest would say neither .
7 Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things .
8 Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago .
9 Some journalists who favour a cooler and more distant approach to reporting would say that he is too close to his subject ; anyone who levels this criticism normally does so from the security of a desk .
10 Another actor would walk in and I 'd say , ‘ What an asshole ! ’ and the barman would say , ‘ Enough , out . ’
11 As we saw earlier , the designers of TRACE would say that these approaches are based on some fundamental misconceptions about the nature of speech recognition .
12 People er I mean th they could n't help a lot because they 'd got nothing themselves a lot of them but there was a lot of help done without any fuss or bother , I mean er er a bloke 'd say er , have you got a fag ?
13 Davide would say , when he was first starting as a lawyer in Riba , on his return from America , and could speak up against the potlatch inclinations of his clients .
14 I do not pretend to know what the ethics committee would say about that .
15 You can imagine what " support " you would get , and what the coach would say to such a programme .
16 ‘ The coach would say , ‘ Have a couple of pints .
17 I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' .
18 Those who are familiar with this Act would say to him , ‘ Ah , yes , but what happens then ?
19 ‘ At which point an editor would say , that is not how it works .
20 Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close .
21 Alida would say , raising her eyes , a smile pinching her pin-cushion mouth .
22 ‘ Come on now , mind my beasts , ’ a drover would say , standing up among the Golds of the plaid in which he had spent the night and putting on a practised tone of wheedling grievance .
23 How can you concentrate ? ’ and Boy would say :
24 Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day .
25 I suspect Fender would say the market is just not there , and point you in the direction of their Custom Shop , who would build whatever you wanted ( phone Tom Nolan on : 071 602 6351 ) .
26 ‘ This woman , ’ the judge would say , ‘ is so depraved , so much the slave of her own passions , that she had no hesitation in bludgeoning to death the father of her child on Christmas Eve . ’
27 I was only seventeen and the girl would say , ‘ I ca n't do the ice creams today , it 's my time of month . ’
28 Now , some of the more radical theorists on child abuse would say that generally speaking people people under remember people under report people under attribute .
29 Moderator I tell you what the convenor would say six four O is it for the panel to bring forward a rite or is it for the er committee on worship to bring forward rites ?
30 I just wondered what the Queen would say , let alone the duchess 's husband . ’
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