Example sentences of "say to [pron] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 2 | The doctor has said to me that since she came I 'm changed completely . |
| 3 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 4 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 5 | And Pam said that Steve said to her that when he was at West Ham grammar school , boys grammar school everybody knew that the people who were best off were the council house people . |
| 6 | So I have to say to you that whilst I 'm putting these forward , it 's absolutely clear that we would be having adverse comments and criticism er , from the S S I , and that you would be moving into areas that I ca n't recommend to you , but I , I put them forward as obviously illustrations . |
| 7 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 8 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 9 | Sorry I should n't be saying because I was Incidentally , I did n't say to you that when they transcribe it , if a name comes up they , they just write erm do you want a cup of tea , name ? |
| 10 | If I can also finally say to you that if what you are , what , what you are reading in front of you , if these yellow pin pricks , whatever sheets on the budget go through this morning , as they are , you will only then be still spending at S S A level , you are not spending above it . |