Example sentences of "[adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , yeah I , I , I , I appreciate that , but I mean I would erm basically say that the less Melbourne Sun . |
| 2 | Er , H I V , the aids virus is a , a debilitating disease , we wo n't pay out initially because as soon as on diagnosis you could basically say they are , er , they 've got a debilitating disease , but we will pay out as soon as the illness actually affects some other part of the body er , and moves in to another disease . |
| 3 | I mean it did n't basically say , go away and do n't do that did it ? |
| 4 | Let's , you know I mean Judith 's saying , well I 've got some good work sheets on this , I mean we can all say that if we all know where the work sheets are |
| 5 | The famous boss of the F B I was , let's all say it , J Edgar Hoover . |
| 6 | He has some very harsh words for the Japanese about their ban on Frankie Detory saying it 's shortsighted and harsh in the extreme and we 'll all say yes to that . |
| 7 | But what 's good now , is actually you can go onto a computer , and the computer will all say , also say , whoa , that 's a bit unrealistic , that does n't marry with that , that does n't match that , no , alter your plan accordingly . |
| 8 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 9 | People do n't suddenly say things out of the blue , without a context . |
| 10 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 11 | Well certainly some people want some answers want to be given on this budget , er me as well , I mean , he ca n't just suddenly say |
| 12 | You ca n't just suddenly say well we 're not gon na supply this quarter or something unless there 's somebody coming in |
| 13 | He notes further to the comments above that while the substitution of will in ( 16 ) " would merely say that it would cost him a fortune if he took them home " ( idea of conditionality ) , the be going to construction expresses the idea of a " current orientation " towards the realization of the infinitive 's event ( here the speaker 's intention to take the books home ) . |
| 14 | We can not merely say the poem represents a kind of null context , where context is partly situation of utterance and partly based on previous elements in the discourse . |
| 15 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 16 | If I may speak as one who has heard all the centenary lectures and restraining myself from being invidious , I will merely say : George , it was an admirable centenary lecture , and the huge spinning top of words , despite its complexity , kept the patterns clear and sharp and arguable . |
| 17 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 18 | A psychoanalyst would perhaps say that we learn to deny ourselves this satisfaction in favour of more sublimated pleasures . |
| 19 | the money that we save on on on the residential bit we could perhaps say , right then we 'll do that bit in four days . |
| 20 | I should perhaps say the " so-called Cenomanian transgression " for it often differs in age by a stage or so , but nevertheless , it was the most startling event of Cretaceous times . |
| 21 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 22 | But my worry was that there was n't going to be enough space there for you to perhaps say all you wanted to say . |
| 23 | I think what you could sensibly say , to them , is , Look , I gather you 've had supply problems with |
| 24 | On the other hand , we might somewhat irreverently say that ex post settling up — in the form of a higher probability of honours ( knighthoods etc. ) than in private industry — provides some compensation . |
| 25 | Kylie wanted to personally say thank you to all the kids who have bought her records and for it to be worthwhile you need to have kids within twenty feet of her . |
| 26 | So we can justly say Sarnafil gives you more — for less |
| 27 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 28 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 29 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 30 | Until all that has died down , I will only say that the only thing I 'm bothered about is the well-being of the club . |