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Example sentences for "must say"

  • Ere I had time to prepare a word of that which I must say to her, she was on the threshold signing me to enter.

  • I must say a word upon this, for the story has gone abroad with great exaggeration, and I have even seen it printed, and my own name referred to for particulars.

  • Of course, Will has made a fool of himself, and gone to the dogs and all that, but I must say it does seem a shame, when you think that old Fletcher can't take his money with him to the next world.

  • And truly, we must say, seldom did any better deserve it, so far as the Chief Parties went.

  • For the Hour is great; and the Honorable Gentlemen, I must say, are small.

  • But to give him his due, as the proverb recommends, we must say that he always returns, after two or three lines of impiety, to his preaching style.

  • Mr. Montagu attempts, somewhat unfairly, we must say, to represent the presents which Bacon received as similar to the perquisites which suitors paid to the members of the Parliaments of France.

  • But it shows also, we must say, that her way of life was rapidly impairing her powers of reasoning and her sense of justice.

  • Without any disparagement to the admirable treatise De Augmentis, we must say that, in our judgment, Bacon's greatest performance is the first book of the Novum Organum.

  • Nobody offered in my place, and I must say I think you show a very small degree of gratitude to me that did.

  • Your child was deserted, she was clean flung away in the midst of Europe, with scarce two shillings, and not two words of any language spoken there: I must say, a bonny business!

  • I ought to be the last to find any fault with you this evening, when you have met my wishes so freely; but I must say, Jasper, that your devotion to your nephew has made you exaggerative here.

  • You give me an affectionate reception, Pussy, I must say.

  • He asked her the question flatly before my face, and I must say I thought it a strange thing for her to consent to.

  • And there's been more money come into the house;--that I must say.

  • But, Mr. Wharton, I must say this, you know Emily has a will of her own, and you must not hold me responsible for anything that may occur.

  • But I must say, with the most lively respect for your Grace personally, that I do not feel inclined to sit down tamely under such a loss as this.

  • I must say that I cannot but blame Mr. Wharton.

  • Then I must say you've got a very odd taste.

  • And therefore we must modify the doctrine of Theaetetus and Protagoras, by asserting further that knowledge is and is not sensation; and of everything we must say equally, that this is and is not, or becomes or becomes not.

  • If you are not quite sure about your ever having been christened, I must say I think it rather dangerous your venturing on it now.

  • Well, really, Gwendolen, I must say that I think there are lots of other much nicer names.

  • But I must say that I think that Brother John's coldness to me is peculiarly painful.

  • Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die.

  • I think that is rather mean of you, Ernest, I must say.

  • But this does not acquit him, Mrs. Weston; and I must say, that I think him greatly to blame.

  • As far as good intentions went, we were both right, and I must say that no effects on my side of the argument have yet proved wrong.

  • Indeed I must say that, much as I had heard of him before and much as I had expected, he very far exceeds any thing.

  • And, I must say, thanks to the discreet efforts of her friends.

  • I must say, however, that there was in the man some sense of duty.

  • I am a dutiful son, I hope, but I must say I should have liked to have seen the retreat down the great staircase.

  • I must say, though, that I was swimmy in my head and now and then had a noise as of the sea in my ears, so I might not have heard it.

  • She had lighted by then the gas on the landing and I must say that I had never seen exactly that manner of face on her before.

  • I must say I thought Rupert's calmness magnificent.

  • I must say, Mr Grant, you were rather severe upon eminent men of science such as we.

  • The post brought me nothing but bills (though I must say that I never do get anything else; my family are not the kind that write).

  • I must say, however, that when I think about you, my imagination has very little to work upon.

  • Well, I must say-- Rorlund: You see the state of things in these vaunted great communities!

  • Hilmar: Well, I must say if I were travelling across a desert waste and found myself beside a well, I am sure I should not stop to think whether--.

  • Well, I must say-- Lona: What must you say?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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