Example sentences of "say [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You just say that to make people feel sorry for you . |
| 2 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 3 | ( Memo to restless waiter : old English proverb say unhygienic to wipe nose on back of hand . ) |
| 4 | Pity he had n't said that to begin with . |
| 5 | Informix Software Inc has opened an office in Prague , Czechoslovakia : others are said likely to follow in Poland , Hungary and CIS . |
| 6 | Yeah , they erm I got DOS Five , loaded it up , and it says unable to find a twenty line and I was , it was still under guarantee |
| 7 | Mm yeah there , there is a need to exceed proper limits , he says , that proper limits have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong er it 's also he says necessary to create terror for a while . |
| 8 | I think that I have said sufficient to indicate , if not prove , that there are no major technical obstacles to realising Ecotopia . |
| 9 | Although my major concern has been to rehabilitate the idea of students ' academic freedom , I have also said sufficient to show that academic freedom can not just be granted by one group or agency towards another . |
| 10 | ‘ Not just saying that to cheer him up . |
| 11 | Helen said , after some thought : " I think you 're just saying that to cheer me up . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're just saying that to shut me up . |
| 13 | I could be saying that to sell the house , but I said it is . |
| 14 | And I attacked his view ( that ‘ to have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot ‘ ) by saying that to talk of feeling the heat of one 's hand without touching it would be like talking of feeling the roughness of the back of one 's hand without touching it . |
| 15 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 16 | You 're just saying that to keep the marriage together ! |
| 17 | I 'm not saying that to embarrass her . |
| 18 | ‘ So you 're saying that to prevent the risk of your sister possibly being hurt at seeing us together you 're not prepared to have any sort of relationship with me ? ’ |
| 19 | You do n't want to think they 're only saying that to get you into bed . |
| 20 | Now Jesus was n't saying this to stop people following him . |
| 21 | I am not saying this to make your head swell . |
| 22 | I am saying this to show you the other side of Basil — this firmness — this absolute integrity — if you believe in a thing lie would say , even if it made him a bit unpopular , which I think is marvellous . |
| 23 | No , I only said that to shut her up . |
| 24 | Harold Carter , some of you will know of him and have heard of him who was er , a preacher within one of the early preachers within the pentecostal movement in this country , and one of their teachers , said that to teach people to wait for the Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but a combination of works , and unbelief . |
| 25 | I only said that to wake you up . |
| 26 | it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people |
| 27 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 28 | They just said that to come up with erm ideas and stuff for the dream . |
| 29 | ‘ I just said that to make you mad . ’ |
| 30 | So we went into the shop , said Sorry to bother you , but Mr so-and-so er number seven is there a flat upstairs ? |