Example sentences of "[vb infin] say [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , Linda me cherry blossom , yer do n't need to say nothing , yer know , ’ said Archie. ‘ 'Ere , would yer like a new penny ? |
| 2 | You do n't need to say anything else . |
| 3 | She did n't need to say anything . |
| 4 | Well he does n't even need to say anything at all actually you could just sit down , erm and start to write a poem about what he imagines . |
| 5 | You do n't need to say anything to him , just |
| 6 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 7 | Then she must 've said something . |
| 8 | I could 've said something frightful . ’ |
| 9 | He says it 's me wife and she 's as mad as hell , and they says yeah we can hear her from here and s must 've said summat about writing and she starts bawling and shouting , oh summat about you 've got to write I want a letter by Friday , you 're not messing me about no more , you 're not talking to him you 're talking to me . |
| 10 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 11 | ‘ My heart was racing so uncontrollably that it was all I could do to say anything at all , ’ she told him . |
| 12 | They were annoying me actually , I thought I 'd keep say something |
| 13 | From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , I do n't like to say nothing . |
| 16 | There are a couple of things I would like to say one is that you will find people have asked regards the paper which David mentioned in Northern Ireland that has been distributed it was pinned to another sheet of paper erm , headed The Last Attempt and there are more copies available it 's simply to know where to find that . |
| 17 | Erm during the executive erm Mary raised a point from the joint planning team about the erm charter and the remarks made by Dr. on that , would you like to say something on that Mary ? because we want to take some action . |
| 18 | He would like to say something more graceful . |
| 19 | Before going on to consider the cases and some of the observations which the academic writers have made on section 1 , I should like to say something more about section 15 . |
| 20 | Now , of those sixty five who would like to say something about their experience , whether it 's , it 's present or past ? |
| 21 | Er I 'd just like to say something actually to put this in context because this dis discussion which suggests that there 's a lot of this goes on , I do n't believe that an Army that 's got bullying as an endemic thing would be able carry out its role in the Gulf , in the Falklands , in Bosnia now |
| 22 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 23 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 24 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 25 | I mean I I wo er would anything like to say anything about |
| 26 | and I did n't like to say anything |
| 27 | I did n't like to say anything , but |
| 28 | The flower seller , Ms Sue Thompson , said : ‘ I did not dare say anything . |
| 29 | my Prince Charles impression , do n't you dare say anything to Ben about it |
| 30 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |