Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner of the London stage school which she attends said she turned up to school every day with the right lunch money and with her uniform clean . |
| 2 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 3 | In this case , the Secretary of State has today issued a public statement disputing various parts of the report in The Independent and he has sought to quote from other aspects of the internal review which he has said is so far confidential . |
| 4 | That is the only case of the thousands of cases that I have raised with him to which he has said yes . |
| 5 | sounds all like bloody what she does say . |
| 6 | Does she dive straight to the point or does she circle around , feeling for what she wants to say ? |
| 7 | She communicates basically by using a cannon communicator which types out what she wants to say onto ticker tape which she then tears off and hands to the person to whom she wants to talk . |
| 8 | Depends what she wants to say . |
| 9 | Well , Jenny needs to give him in writing what she wants to say . |
| 10 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 11 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 12 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 13 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 14 | She would only say what she has said already . ’ |
| 15 | Hear what she has to say . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Unless there is any quite remarkable news your sister has to tell , ’ Mrs Browning said , ‘ I would rather not hear what she has to say since I imagine it is a tissue of lies , of excuses and complaints . ’ |
| 17 | Note how simply Adrienne Rich says what she has to say . |
| 18 | But I think I 'll write to that parson 's wife and see what she has to say about it . ’ |
| 19 | Well we do n't know for sure yet about what she 's said about you . |
| 20 | Guess what she 's said she 's gon na write to go on the pill ! |
| 21 | One possible reply from B would be yes , inviting A to continue with what she intends to say about John Smith after establishing that B knows him . |
| 22 | The drafter should not begin to draft until he/she knows exactly what he/she wants to say . |
| 23 | And that 's what he likes to say anyway . |
| 24 | What he omits to say is that new station is south of the River Wharfe and there are no bridges over which anyone can get to that new station from the area f search . |
| 25 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
| 26 | I get the impression that Mr Ataie has decided what he wants to say and then created characters to fit his theme . |
| 27 | What is appropriate is first to desire to love your local church ; second , get alone with God and see what he wants to say to the church ; third , to begin to express this in your housegroup : ‘ I feel what God is saying is … . ’ |
| 28 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 29 | He has no permanent record of what he has said earlier , and only under unusual circumstances does he have notes which remind him what he wants to say next . |
| 30 | The writer , on the contrary , may look over what he has already written , pause between each word with no fear of his interlocutor interrupting him , take his time in choosing a particular word , even looking it up in the dictionary if necessary , check his progress with his notes , reorder what he has written , and even change his mind about what he wants to say . |