Example sentences of "say [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tell Master Amyas , " he said , loud enough for Amyas to hear , " that if his benighted father has anything to say to me , then let him get on his ass and come and say it to me direct , because he wo n't get me setting foot on his popish property , not while there 's breath in my body , he wo n't . " |
| 2 | Conversely , it is possible to take a sentence from a language teaching or linguistics textbook , go to the country where the language is spoken , say it to someone in a suitable situation , and achieve something by saying it . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind what you say , and who you say it to , ’ Bicker warned . |
| 4 | Now that 's probably er one of the least well-defined areas for standards , and I mean if you say Edifact to er a North American user they 'll look a bit puzzled , if you say it to somebody who knows something about Edifact they 'll say , Which Edifact standard is that ? |
| 5 | ‘ When you say it to me , I believe you . |
| 6 | I I say it to all whoever comes in here and they 're |
| 7 | ‘ Say it to me ! |
| 8 | It 's nice that people say it to you unprompted . |
| 9 | You say it to her . |
| 10 | ‘ Because the ghost says them to me . |
| 11 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 12 | By combining a fuller investigation of a text 's history with an awareness of new theoretical investigations into the structures of both culture and discourse , New Historicism has directly confronted the problem of how literature ‘ says something of something and says it to somebody ’ ( to recall Geertz 's formulation ) . |
| 13 | if she says it to me one more time I |
| 14 | So you 're sitting in your office and some , you know your , your boss comes in and says hey the president says so and so , but the president does n't usually say it to you he says it to somebody else so there 's always , there 's always a possibility of ambiguity , somebody else has interpreted the president 's message in a particular way . |
| 15 | I always says it to her face |
| 16 | He says it to you and he says it to me . |
| 17 | He says it to you and he says it to me . |
| 18 | I could never have said it to him face to face , but over the telephone I hesitated and said , ‘ But I thought the newspaper business was booming ! ’ |
| 19 | He would have said it to no one else . |
| 20 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 21 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 22 | Need to know what she 's said — who she 's said it to . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've said it to you before , but I 'll say it again . |
| 24 | A teacher called Mrs C she has even said it to us herself that she wants all the black people out of the school . |
| 25 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
| 26 | But how on earth could he say that , any more than he could have said it to Miss Trimm ? |
| 27 | ‘ What dreadful things ? ’ said Sally-Anne , who knew what Havvie might be saying , for had he not said it to her , before his court ? |
| 28 | It was funny — when my dad had said it to me it seemed like the rather tired , friendly sort of thing that parents often say to you . |
| 29 | The strengths of using written communication is that it 's on paper there 's a record , of course that can be a weakness sometimes , be careful what you put down , it means more you get hold of more than one person you 've said it to more than one person who can be quite difficult to get hold of . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've never said it to anybody but you . ’ |