Example sentences of "say [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really thought that was funny because , once you start listening to their music with that in mind , suddenly almost everything they say starts to become very cryptic . |
| 2 | If you say last to die , yes . |
| 3 | He say , I stand beside her , hear her talking on the telephone ; her boss call her , say come to work . |
| 4 | But when I read the SHE article , everything Joanne had said seemed to fit with the studies on children and reincarnation . |
| 5 | In Kampuchea , though , people are said to smile to hide their fear . |
| 6 | It 's permanently overcast , with frequent squalls of rain that burns like acid , more deadly even than the stuff that history says helped to kill Old Earth . |
| 7 | When you 're away from your base and somebody is fielding your calls for you , give them this pad , and ask them to record the calls in this pad , then you can just tick that box on the right-hand side that says calls to answer , erm , and insert the pages as you need to into the daytimer . |
| 8 | Rachel stared at Jennifer and her heart gave a great lurch as what her sister had just said began to sink in , then she frowned . |
| 9 | It says remember to press record but I see no record on there . |
| 10 | You should get there at all costs , because it is an absolutely astonishing place , but the nature of the spectacle is such that it can only work on you properly if the cirque is not being mobbed ; it demands a certain loneliness , and on afternoons in July and August , for instance , the coaches are said to have to queue before they can get into the village of Gavarnie . |
| 11 | He says prepare to dig … dig ! |
| 12 | Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours . |
| 13 | A secretary is seeking High Court permission to sue three doctors who she says failed to spot a hip deformity when she was a baby . |
| 14 | A High Court Judge has ruled that a woman CAN sue three doctors , who she says failed to spot a hip deformity when she was a baby . |
| 15 | Even MIPS ' owner Silicon Graphics Inc is said to want to speed up its multi-processor work by using the P5 chip . |
| 16 | After eight months of dogged peacemaking , wholly unrewarded and largely unappreciated , the UN 's representative in Angola , Margaret Anstee , is said to want to give up . |
| 17 | ‘ What you 're saying seems to make sense . |
| 18 | She said got to have a card now . |
| 19 | The ministers agreed to take " co-ordinated action " to combat the menace of terrorism which they said threatened to destabilize the South Asian region . |
| 20 | Nothing Sylvie said seemed to penetrate her loyalty to that daughter who was n't hers . |
| 21 | What he said seemed to open up vistas , disquieting views into a landscape she did not like . |
| 22 | It was a stupid idea but nothing she said seemed to make any difference . |
| 23 | Nothing she said seemed to make an iota of difference . |
| 24 | Mostly he listened ; not that Mick talked a lot , but when he did everything he said seemed to have meaning . |
| 25 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 26 | I , no , that was , that was where where erm cos it is a , it was a chapel but erm that 's where old Chaucer used to keep all poetry and in his collection like he had erm cold water he said used to keep that by his side , by his bed |
| 27 | Director Mike Cairns said having to pay for community care may mean some older people are deterred from asking for help . |
| 28 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 29 | ‘ Thinking big ’ is certainly a professional challenge , or temptation ; that is to say trying to conceive an omnibus exhibition that will sort everything out and establish a record is an interesting proposition . |
| 30 | Erm , what was I gon na say , oh aye , Mike said to say to tell Win |