Example sentences of "what it say " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were flocking round each paper , jostling and craning to see what it said and who had signed so far . |
| 2 | Both he and Mr Heseltine warned against making light of the huge trade deficit and what it said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 3 | This is what it said : |
| 4 | ‘ The paper the other day , ’ the driver was saying now , ‘ you know what it said ? |
| 5 | I often rush through reading things and like to read just the summary — then ca n't remember what it said . |
| 6 | What it said sounded very much like the words the woman had just used . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what it said . ’ |
| 8 | Where the government has done exactly what it said it would do , its policies have worked . |
| 9 | Unix Expo delivered what it said it would , counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers . |
| 10 | We began by studying the Bible and trying to relate what it said to our daily lives and the problems of the community . |
| 11 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 12 | The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory , but I did n't hear too well what it said — partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down . |
| 13 | It tells us this this is n't doing exactly what it said here right . |
| 14 | Meg stood there a moment , staring at the journal , wondering what it said , knowing Ben would tell her when he wanted to . |
| 15 | And what it said could never be altered . |
| 16 | So I ca n't remember what it said in it . |
| 17 | It was n't what it said , I mean I 've read books and heard jokes just as bad , it was just the thought of Mummy getting it . |
| 18 | After a new series of newspaper advertisements , for example , a firm can test a sample of the readership to ascertain how many readers noticed the advertisement , how many recalled what it said and how many had actually bought the product since reading it . |
| 19 | On the other hand , for the Type B non-profit , the extent to which income from non-revenue sources such as taxation covers cost is only a very narrow measure of performance : it only measures the extent to which the organization spent what it said it would spend , saying nothing about how the market valued its goods and services . |
| 20 | " From an advertisement and guess what it said " Are Your Armpits Charmpits ? " |
| 21 | ‘ I wonder what it said , Roger ? ’ |
| 22 | Almost on the same day that the third package Air Services Regulation was signed by the governments of the EEC , the state-owned Banque de Paris injected £128 million of cash into Air France in what it said was a ‘ normal ’ financial transaction . |
| 23 | If that is the report to which he is referring , when asked how I would react to a Select Committee report I said that it would depend on what it said . |
| 24 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 25 | It proposed that the December meeting should be followed by regular meetings at various levels , including ministerial meetings in what it said " might be called a North Atlantic Co-operation Council " . |
| 26 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 27 | I see the school writing a self-appraisal and want to see how far it is doing what it said in practice . ’ |
| 28 | Or did it mean just what it said ? |
| 29 | I read what it said on the notice and it said , Health and Safety at Work , it said , Obey These Signs , it said , and it said , ‘ They Are There For Your Protection . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That 's what it said ? ’ said Dorcas . |