Example sentences of "you say [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You say that — with your grandfather drooling in his bed ! |
2 | ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’ |
3 | You say that 01 for London has approval from the IBA to look for sponsorship whereas The South Bank Show does not . |
4 | In ‘ Publishing in Cuba ’ ( February 9th ) you say that ‘ local scientists are trying to fathom out how to turn sugar cane into paper ’ . |
5 | Again I agree with you when you say that equality of husband and wife is an absolute necessity to the well-being of the family … . |
6 | The way you say that it sounds like crap , but I guess the essence of it makes sense . |
7 | ‘ You say that with some feeling , Wilson ? |
8 | When you say that , partner , you better smile . |
9 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that something 's the matter . |
10 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that it 's awful . |
11 | You say that she has a mineral lick — have you tried a plain salt lick ? |
12 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
13 | You say that there is no group in your area , but you can still contact them by letter . |
14 | Another idea , suggested by Nic Picot , is that you say that you are going to predict under which of five cups the audience is going to leave a coin . |
15 | At this point you say that in the night they all wanted to have a party so they got up . |
16 | You say that Hatchetfish are not suitable for a beginner , nor should they be sold to someone who is setting up an aquarium for the first time . |
17 | When you say that , there 's immediately a flood of records that I think about that are all so unbelievably unrelated to one another … ’ |
18 | On the album sleeve of ‘ Back To The Light ’ you say that you use both old and new AC30s . |
19 | In the video you say that a gap of ″ should be the distance between the body of the guitar ( Strat ) and the underside of the bridge plate . |
20 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
21 | ‘ I do not know what sort of a man you have become , Mikhail , and you say that you do not remember me . |
22 | ‘ If you say that about the Irish , why did you marry my mother ? ’ |
23 | ‘ You say that the paintings have been handed down . |
24 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
25 | We have a strong tendency to reject it — ‘ Go on , you say that to all your sales people ! ’ |
26 | I say that perhaps you might be a ‘ vulnerable ’ person , because you say that you 've always been ‘ a bit of a worrier ’ , finding it difficult to relax ; and your mother also appears to have been an anxious person . |
27 | It is then a matter of preference whether you say that they can not choose the goals or that they can not form strategies to achieve them or both . |
28 | If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are . |
29 | You say that I have the endurance — you say it in order to give me strength . |
30 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |