Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] say [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 2 | ‘ Lookin' and saying nothing , well , a girl knows what that means . |
| 3 | Well no not so much that but , but I 'm not , I 'm not sure that other lady , the one whose baby was born just after er before Becky you see and I thought could just imagine her being saying going and saying something and getting , it getting moulded a different way , you know ? |
| 4 | With a taboo a person can not allow himself to see himself doing or saying something — it is an infringement of his image . |
| 5 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |