Example sentences of "[adv] and say " in BNC.

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1 Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry .
2 Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village .
3 Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not .
4 It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here .
5 When Tom and Belinda reached the lift , he took her arm suddenly and said , ‘ Belinda , can you go across to the blood bank now and give that blood ?
6 He concluded his examination by turning to me suddenly and saying : ‘ I feel you are going to write this book one day . ’
7 Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids ,
8 When I had just erected the tent , Paddy laid aside his empty plate , strolled over , opened a locker and , with an expression of humorous disgust , peered inside and said , ‘ What d' you keep in there ?
9 As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona .
10 Massingham rummaged gently inside and said :
11 Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year .
12 Nutty came out belligerently and said , ‘ Some trainer you are !
13 Carrie nudged him gently and said , ‘ That 'll be fun , Nick , wo n't it ?
14 that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place .
15 of getting i the some sort of a working a relationship a at a more detailed where in between , we 're between the staff the teaching staff and the tutor , the form tutors help the teaching staff , especially and say in your department where you you 're gon na have to give them more homework .
16 Into a gasping horrified silence while Mercer struggled for words , Zak smiled brilliantly and said , ‘ Is it indigestion ?
17 The nice one — who was a dead ringer for the compère in Hi-Di-Hi — came in and said , Well Glen , we 've thought about it , we 're not going to charge you with handling stolen goods .
18 Again Herr Nordern was going to speak , knowing as he did so that he would sound feeble , when again Bodo stepped in and said , in a distinctly non-feeble voice , which sounded like a cement-mixer , ‘ Of course he remembers .
19 Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ .
20 However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said :
21 At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other .
22 A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup .
23 Faced with this rank illiteracy , Derek steamed in and said
24 I could n't find a way round it and when someone came in and said , ‘ that sounds great , but can you get me a pure sound where I can actually recognise what guitar is being played , whether it 's clean or distorted ? ’
25 ‘ Two women came in and said we have some bad news for you .
26 ‘ There is a phone in number for viewers to air their opinions and he called in and said he was furious about what had happened to this poor woman and wanted to give her the money so she could buy presents for the boys .
27 After we returned to Pinewood Studios there was a knock at my dressing room door one day , and Trevor came in and said , ‘ Come to my dressing room . ’
28 Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps .
29 As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street .
30 Klaus Kabelitz , duty manager at the Inn on the Park , said : ‘ Police came in and said they had received an alert with a bona fide code .
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