Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] to say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 2 | The judge was about to pass sentence , but broke into the proceedings and stood up saying : ‘ One does not know quite what to say in a case like this — the King is dead . ’ |
| 3 | For instance , he was the principal author of Security Council Resolution 242 which , 26 years later , is still meant to govern the terms of any Middle East peace settlement ; but Mr Paterson has almost nothing to say about how the resolution was drafted and passed . |
| 4 | He is consistently hostile to Lothar , and that means he has almost nothing to say about Lothar 's case or about those who " bought " it . |
| 5 | John would have known exactly what to say to him . |
| 6 | Julia spent most of the journey between Venice and Florence trying to decide exactly what to say to David 's Italian mother . |
| 7 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 8 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |