Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happens every da I go and say . |
| 2 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 3 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 4 | And I was disappointed I went and say , Hey |
| 5 | Everything I do or say is turned against me . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , if I do or say anything that you really object to , you 'll be able to walk back to the house . ’ |
| 7 | If you really do want to help me , I need your unquestioning support , not your childish tantrums every time I do or say something you do n't like . ’ |
| 8 | How many times have I had someone come and say , can you sign this drawing please |
| 9 | But if you prevaricate and say , ‘ I ca n't comment on this because I 'm an officer of the Council , ’ then they think , ‘ Oh , God , you know , what sort of person am I talking to ? ’ and you lose all your empathy and all the sympathy of the listeners , which is what you 're after . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 11 | Well there were one or two that was a bit , got on their high horse , you know and say , It 's disgusting and that , but er I never did because er in cases like that I think there but for the grace of God , you know I I would n't condemn people , in those , we were living in very abnormal times you see . |
| 12 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 13 | ca n't you offer it to divisions you know and say well |
| 14 | but , but , you know if say well look , you know , we could do with twenty five and he turns round and he might say well you know , yo he might say no |
| 15 | We , we need the younger blood because you , you talk and say well how are you and oh my leg 's bad , my leg 's been dreadful this week and you ca n't very well ask these people to go campaigning on the streets , can you ? |
| 16 | With the 74-year-old mayor is his entourage of city slicker LA types — the kind of people who smile and say thank you while they rudely interrupt your conversation . |
| 17 | This too is a technique pioneered by Neighbours , where it works best at the beginning and end of each episode , and in the poignant identification of the tragedy of Paul and Gail , who do and say the same things day after day , but wear different clothes . |
| 18 | In everything you do and say connected with helping your elderly parent with her financial problems , your aim should be , as far as possible , to advise tactfully but allow the actual decisions to remain hers . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better go , ’ she said flatly , pulling the gown close around her body , ‘ before you do or say something else that you might regret . ’ |
| 20 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 21 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 22 | We can do what we like and say what we like to whomever we like , without restriction . |
| 23 | See there 's some difference if we go and say what is a receptionist 's key task all the jobs that we do at work probably only two , three , four of them are actually what we 're paid to do , cos they 're the results we 're measured on . |
| 24 | Everything we do and say is reflective of our personality and mental-emotional patterns . |
| 25 | All we do and say and think is for our country and our King . |
| 26 | Bless our work bless us that all we do and say may be to your glory and for the sake of your kingdom guide us |
| 27 | So and , and I think maybe it 's a good idea that we write and say that we would like to be given an opportunity to speak to them . |
| 28 | What happens that 's it we come and say right . |
| 29 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 30 | You do n't have to LIKE the things that they do or say to LOVE them ; Jesus certainly did n't like Zacchaeus ' cheating , but he loved Zacchaeus ! |