Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |
| 2 | And we 've had people quite often in these sessions eventually have said , well no I do n't I do n't think I will . |
| 3 | ‘ The importers just rang to say their shipments have been held up in Delhi . |
| 4 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 5 | The legend of Noah 's ark once purported to say something about the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 6 | Monday 's hero is Friday 's forgotten man … but Glenn Hoddle still wants to say goodbye to the fans … |
| 7 | Three major contracts and another 19 minor ones are outstanding , but Mr Outhwaite yesterday declined to say whether he would have to increase the £305 million reserves he has set aside . |
| 8 | Even some of the worst enemies of real openness now have to say they are open . ’ |
| 9 | However , Tory leader Coun Lawrie Wild has said he expects Coun Woodhead to do the ‘ honourable thing ’ . |
| 10 | Mr Mulgrove rather wanted to say that her voice and appearance would be an asset on the checkout , good for Pricewell 's public image ( a cause dear to his heart ) , but he was uncertain how to put this . |
| 11 | and the judges below have said . |
| 12 | ‘ Ay , I wis just goin' to say wee Becky 's seven the day . ’ |
| 13 | Katherine just managed to say thank you in return before he walked away . |
| 14 | Yet there is some difficulty in knowing whether Mill really meant to say anything very different from Bentham . |
| 15 | It is clearly established that the onus lies on the party repudiating the signed document to establish the necessary ingredients of non est factum and it would , in my opinion , have been open to the judge simply to have said that there was no evidence before him sufficient to establish Mrs. Steed 's lack of understanding of what she had signed . |
| 16 | The husband merely had to say , in the presence of witnesses , ‘ I divorce thee . ’ |
| 17 | Daddy always did say to do what you do best , and I am very good at it … so they say . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 19 | The difficulty is in knowing what local opinion really has to say on these matters . |
| 20 | What Mr Eggar really meant to say was that there has recently been a high level of success in finding new oil and gas fields in UK waters during a worldwide downturn in exploration . |
| 21 | well this case I 'm afraid does n't lend itself to short entirely impossible , er Mr maybe have to say erm will lead to the questions and then for example spent er a long time on questions this afternoon that I 've had for you Mr |
| 22 | The last team then has to say the word they had in mind . |
| 23 | It took Rosemary about a minute to answer the door , but , as all the flats in the building were of the same layout , Leith 's ‘ Ready ? ’ query never got said . |
| 24 | However , when Rousseau 's text is submitted to the questioning scrutiny of the grammatologist , it emerges that , although Rousseau clearly wants to say that melody originates in the passions , he actually has to formulate a definition of it that includes a notion of articulation and differentiation . |
| 25 | Jesus only had to say the word and he knew that the servant would be healed ( Luke 7:7 ) . |
| 26 | i just have to say this : George Best is easily one of — the — very best players to ever come out of the british isles — yeah i know he played for Scum — but he — was — a bloody excellent player . |
| 27 | rung this person up live to say they 've won this holiday for six at erm |
| 28 | She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything . |
| 29 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 30 | WREXHAM Maelor Borough Council last night again refused to say Yes or No to a bid to knock down a former hospital despite being warned it could face legal action . |