Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] say [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he got out of the car and said something to me . |
| 2 | If he attempts to talk to you , you will flick him a haughty glance and say nothing . |
| 3 | As you get older and you get more experienced of it you know you y you begin to realize that , I mean this album , I 've done this album and I haven , I 've have n't just sung on this album and made sounds , which is what I did with What Do You Want , I 've sung on this album and said something . |
| 4 | Adam shrugged his shoulders and said nothing . |
| 5 | Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing . |
| 6 | Loopy Lil beamed with pleasure but said nothing as she watched Mrs Hollidaye fill her bowl to the brim . |
| 7 | With what I swear was a scathing look that said something like " Wally " , he launched himself gracefully on to the air and noiselessly flew down the gill out of sight . |
| 8 | Ianthe bent her head over her work and said nothing . |
| 9 | Sure enough , Jo leaned over to the driver 's window and said something to someone before she ran up the steps to the house . |
| 10 | He won every regional heat when he lived in the South and says lots of familiar faces reappear in the competition each year . |
| 11 | Turning to me suddenly , he pointed through the windscreen and said something in a tongue I did n't understand . |
| 12 | HOOBERMAN is appalled by such an attitude and says something must be done to stop the ‘ sanitisation ’ of literature . |
| 13 | Overcome with shyness , she looked down at her feet , twisted the hem of her much-washed pale blue smock and said nothing . |
| 14 | So the easiest thing is just ask a question and say nothing , wait for the answer and then respond appropriately . |
| 15 | But if somebody answered the question and say something else . |
| 16 | The magician turned , stared at the cat and said something in a strange language . |
| 17 | He got on a bus and handed some money to the driver and said something I could n't hear , then disappeared upstairs . |
| 18 | Lindsey looked at nicotine-stained fingers and said nothing . |
| 19 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 20 | And you can not make qualitative prejudicial judgments and say one is better than the other . |
| 21 | He set his teeth and said nothing , but his eyes were eloquent . |
| 22 | Sits in his armchair for hours and says nothing . |
| 23 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 24 | What I want is she should n't shrink in her skin and say nothing . |
| 25 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 26 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 27 | And , but he did n't sort of point and say anything . |
| 28 | Anna looked at Stephen and said nothing . |
| 29 | Frederica drank a lot of wine and said nothing , but watched everyone in turn , charged with unsatisfied curiosity as they lay and lazily tossed ideas between them . |
| 30 | Luce took another sip of the crisp , dry wine and said nothing . |