Example sentences of "[subord] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 2 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 3 | And that does n't mean what it would mean if said by one of your generation ! ’ |
| 4 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 5 | So Woody Allen was quoted as saying in 1978 , a watershed year in which he Got Serious , swapped tables and made Interiors , a polished homage to Bergman that was certainly grown-up but was as enjoyable as shingles and carried as many jokes as the average court summons . |
| 6 | He carried on his life in the full glare of publicity as though to say to one and all : ‘ this is the way you want to read me , well , so be it . ’ |