Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am unable even to say my prayers upright . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He can mud-sling , try to save his face , do anything to try to turn public opinion against me but I 'm strong enough to say , ‘ Say it , do n't make innuendos ’ . |
| 3 | So the only way in which he can have any rights at all to Ricky apart from you agreeing , is to go to court himself , erm and I 'm inclined just to say lets see what he does . |
| 4 | ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it . |
| 5 | But I just do n't know ; she 's afraid of rows between us , so she 's afraid naturally to say anything . ’ |
| 6 | As a mark of gratitude I sent her a food parcel which , she was good enough to say , miraculously filled the worst gaps in her store-cupboard . |
| 7 | We are inclined therefore to say that again presupposes , rather than semantically entails , that some event referred to happened before as well ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 8 | we we 're easy enough to say , right let's well we just do n't get |
| 9 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
| 10 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 12 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 13 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 14 | It 's easy enough saying it is n't it . |
| 15 | I mean it 's wicked even to say it . |
| 16 | But I do actually , I do actually think it 's fair enough to say that the parish council can be , and should be , more clear , more direct in telling people what it 's doing . |
| 17 | However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) . |
| 18 | It is impossible now to say . |
| 19 | It is easy enough to say What Makes Martin Run : a sincere belief that Hong Kong needs true democracy , even if most of its present leaders disagree . |
| 20 | It is easy enough to say all this . |
| 21 | It is true enough to say that we would have no conception of it . |
| 22 | It is popular nowadays to say that morphogenesis ( that is , the development of form is programmed by the genes . |
| 23 | Not an easy job , but he 's kind enough to say I 'm invaluable . ’ |
| 24 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |