Example sentences of "[adv] and say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 2 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 3 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 4 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 5 | Then she took her arms away and said slowly , ‘ Poor , unhappy Erik . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes give it away and say right I 'll teach you how to do this , when they keep coming back and saying what wh you 're running out of time and you think give it you can it 's quite common . |
| 7 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 8 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 9 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
| 10 | In fact , they would go further and say bluntly that the current obsession with exam passes is actually harming their pupils ' education . |
| 11 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 12 | and I think it 's perhaps important to start with that we go with something that 's a little bit open-ended that we can review in a years time er , perhaps a little bit later and say well look we have shown that we can do it valuably er the proof is in the pudding , it now beholds everybody to do it this way . |
| 13 | He looked up at her now and said quietly , ‘ I … |
| 14 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 15 | If you ask Ben Lowe if this account of events is true , he smiles self-deprecatingly and says shyly : ‘ Not quite . ’ |
| 16 | So I turned round then and said right said to Sharan I 'll drop you off at the house and I said when she 's ready I 'll walk up to the shop . |
| 17 | But Jess was not to learn what she said , because Miss Jarman suddenly realized she was still there and said brusquely : ‘ What do y'think you 're at ? |
| 18 | Well then did we all just sit there and say well you know do n't rot there 's nuclear sort of fallout and er oh dear erm what we going to do about it and decide should we get on onto it |
| 19 | If not I 'd go in there and say please could |
| 20 | He 's so thick , you know he 'll say right I 'll go down the hold , I 'll do the humping , what they call humping , he 'll do that , loading these slings or bags , rather than him standing there and say well ten bags in that sling , put ten down , he could n't do that , so he 'd rather go down the hold that 's happened . |
| 21 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 22 | ‘ He would come in late and say very little . |
| 23 | If Claudine was incensed then she would have rung earlier and said so . |
| 24 | I looked at her steadily and said again , ‘ Life has changed . ’ |
| 25 | He leaned forward and said softly to Dalziel : ‘ I 'll tell you something . |
| 26 | He leaned forward and said quietly : |
| 27 | You know , and if it is just the way it happens , particularly when you get a er , an envelope with says here you are , have free drinks , you know that some people , they do n't drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are . |
| 28 | Apparently she thought she knew what it was , for she smiled again and said huskily , ‘ What is it , Jacques ? ’ |
| 29 | I smiled a little ruefully and said reflectively , ‘ Have you worked out when the trap was set ? |