Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [be] say [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 2 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 3 | Yes but forgive me you must listen to what 's said to you because somebody might be saying to you Lawrence is under the bed . |
| 4 | Erm you find that more and more constant repetition , each time you go back to it , there 's less that you 've forgotten , less that seems new and more that seems obvious and you 'll be saying to yourself , sort of m You know of course Yeah I do n't need to read this , tat 's obvious that 's obvious . |
| 5 | You 'll be saying to him , D' ya have to have this on . |
| 6 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 7 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 8 | They 'll be saying to themselves : we felt it up there , how much will Rangers feel it down here ? |
| 9 | Therese said , ‘ Mon petit , the people who talk do n't matter , I was n't thinking of them , I was thinking of your mother , of what they might be saying about her . ’ |
| 10 | Trying to ignore what they might be saying about her , she held on to silence as her only control . |
| 11 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 12 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |
| 13 | It can be said in his favour that the Michael X set seemed very like a fraud and a circus , and that these people had no deep connection with the politics of Trinidad . |
| 14 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 15 | We should remember that he does not claim definitely to be refuting the Aristotelians , but merely to be pointing out what may be said against them . |
| 16 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 17 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |