Example sentences of "but say " in BNC.
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| 1 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 2 | Moody 's and S&P sell reams of information on the companies they rate , but say little about themselves . |
| 3 | The Wedding Present want to make records but say they are not bothered how many they sell . |
| 4 | TEM declines to estimate the cost of the entire operation , which will be borne by the company , but say it is ‘ not cheap . ’ |
| 5 | Then early black singers like Leadbelly would do songs about that , but say , ‘ Baby , let me rock and roll you all night long … ’ since that 's what the term ‘ rock and roll ’ means , pure and simple . |
| 6 | Officers interviewed the couple , in their early 30s , but say it is unlikely either will press charges following the 2am bust-up . |
| 7 | He could but say that the only solution to such posers was a universal pension . |
| 8 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 9 | Many on Wall Street acknowledge this weakness , but say it is being redressed . |
| 10 | The two are fierce competitors in the market , despite cooperation at the engineering level , but say they will not compete by undercutting pricing . |
| 11 | The authors plan to replicate the study in other ICUs , but say their findings support the theory that collaboration is more important in complex situations where there are a number of alternative choices . |
| 12 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 13 | The most professional approach was to be polite but say nothing . |
| 14 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 15 | Erm you could use tidal or wave power but say |
| 16 | But say it 's your mother , or your probation officer or someone like that , it 's all right . |
| 17 | But say you love me again , Jane . ’ |
| 18 | HARGREAVES : I ca n't but say mighty pretty and passable genteel . |
| 19 | If someone a obviously it 's it 's what I 'm asking is hypothetical anyway because I mean the flats are coming down so no one new can move in , but say you actually if if it was possible for other people to move into these flats and you knew someone and they said erm , You know I 'm thinking of moving into Green flats , what would you say ? |
| 20 | But say you use brown rats from the sewers instead . |
| 21 | Yes , but say he reappeared , and Aldhelm never came . |
| 22 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 23 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 24 | But say yes , and I 'll tell you all about it later . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But say you had to do it all over again . |
| 26 | But say there is a link between Paul and Markham , what would the link most likely be ? ’ |
| 27 | He did everything , Toby felt , but say he had a spiffing wheeze . |
| 28 | The common people do not blame me or my husband for Buckingham 's downfall but say his fate was star-crossed by this house . |
| 29 | ‘ But say we accept what you 're obviously driving at , who might have wanted her dead ? ’ |
| 30 | But say that still . |