Example sentences of "say [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he really accepts that , somehow or other , the Common Market is a panacea and if the British people have no say about whether we should continue our membership of that club , which does not have the interests of the common people at heart , how can it be justified ? |
| 2 | I say about and that is the reason I got the book : because I discovered I was forgetting when things happened , and sometimes even whether things happened or not . |
| 3 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 4 | His main powers concern external relations , defence and , perhaps most significantly for a supporter of the death penalty , the ultimate say on whether a condemned man will hang . |
| 5 | ‘ You listen to me , Corby , ’ he says as if he was a hundred years old and me a little kid . |
| 6 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 7 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 8 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 9 | I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed . |
| 10 | Ca n't you hear me saying to that They all go in a tin up there John . |
| 11 | I mean those , by and large , those who who need to listen to what I 'm saying to and take it on board wo n't and those who already do do n't need it anyway but they 'll take it on board . |
| 12 | but I ai n't had chance to say to you , but I was saying to cos when I called in and see you think about it he |
| 13 | She said for when I get in the car . |
| 14 | You could have stolen another few minutes , ’ she said as if the evening had never happened . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes ! ’ he said as if he did n't believe me , ‘ and what were you doing all last night ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , I will , ’ I said as if it was the one thing in the world I wanted to do . |
| 17 | ‘ The main switch for here is over in the shed , ’ Sam said as if automatically , his mind 's attention elsewhere . |
| 18 | ‘ Great minds think alike , ’ she said as if she 'd invented the aphorism . |
| 19 | ‘ All the same , I have no wish to be seen like this , ’ Edward said as if that were the end of the matter — but Richard heard the catch in his voice . |
| 20 | ‘ Lunch , ’ Madeleine said as if he 'd suggested something outrageous . |
| 21 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 22 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she said as if reading from a Gestapo training manual . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , there is that , ’ he said as if thinking it over . |
| 24 | ‘ Go on , ’ I said as if I meant it . |
| 25 | ‘ So we can go for a Big Mac , ’ she said as if talking to an infant . |
| 26 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 27 | ‘ The Wolfman was right , ’ she said as if to herself . |
| 28 | ‘ Rule one , ’ he said as if she had n't spoken , ‘ stop trying to pretend you 're Miss Virgin Snow . |
| 29 | ‘ I can imagine you could stand up in court and say a thing like that without blinking an eye , ’ he said as if the thought astonished him . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Peter , you mean , ’ he said as if he 'd forgotten all about him . |