Example sentences of "[noun] says something " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the agent says something about a house it must be verified . |
| 2 | On the tape , Beatrix says something I did n't pay much attention to when I first heard it . |
| 3 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 4 | So , I said this I said erm I said oh Jan says something all I 'm I 've known what Sandra can be like , you know erm you know well I was with her for three |
| 5 | Sometimes , when Lennie says something or does something wrong , George gets very annoyed and lets something slip without thinking . |
| 6 | You can include text , so that the prompt says something like What next , Fred ? |
| 7 | But Foggerty says something like this might do him a lot of good . |
| 8 | If the Bible says something that is inconvenient or difficult to follow , it is rejected as not relevant to the modern world . |
| 9 | It sounds posey perhaps , but Althusser says something along the lines of when there are breaks that 's when you have a chance to change things , a chance to nip in through the cracks and grab the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , we 'll have to hope Place says something else . ’ |
| 11 | That The Smiths are the most popular group , in rough terms , at the precise time that rock 'n' roll is going through its worst phase for many years says something that is not complimentary to them . |
| 12 | Then Sam says something else — I do n't know — so I grab him and I have him up against the wall and feet are off the ground , and I said , ‘ Sam , I hope you know what I mean , Sam ! ’ |
| 13 | To begin the action , the adult says something like : ‘ Now what shall we ask Santa to bring you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 14 | And I remembered an early line from ‘ Othello ’ where Iago says something like , ‘ I 'll get that bloody Moor if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 15 | Rosa : That 's if your patroa says something to you that really ticks you off , but because she 's your boss you just go away without saying anything . |
| 16 | Then there is the matter of sex and lifestyle , on which subject I recall a curious interview between Stirling Moss and Hunt in which Hunt says something like , ‘ Luckily , I never made no-sex a rule before a race . |
| 17 | At his first approach to man-machine conversation , the system analyst often tends to think of the man as originating each part : the man says something to the computer and the computer replies . |
| 18 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 19 | The older man says something in National Language . |
| 20 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 21 | Occasionally Anne says something , at which Millie disagrees , and we 're off again . |
| 22 | Edward Said discovers a kind of negative theology in Derrida 's writing , and Nicolas Tredell says something similar , ‘ one might draw some interesting comparisons between , for instance , deconstruction and Nagarjunan Buddhism , which dissolves a metaphysics of presence into a metaphysics of absence , the Void . ’ |
| 23 | Rufus says something , and the Rasta comes into the cabin alone . |
| 24 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 25 | This account says something about the nature of invention . |
| 26 | Millie says something and we listen . |
| 27 | When a document says something , how do we know it is telling the truth ? |
| 28 | The first comedian says something in a high-flown style , and the other repeats the same information in a colloquial one : |
| 29 | If , however , you feel that your husband 's taste for this material says something about his whole personality that you simply ca n't stand , then you always have the option of leaving and taking your daughters with you . |
| 30 | You switch off , the guy says something to you , you do n't even hear it . |