Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] say for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all ended up happy , anyway , which is more than I can say for most marriages . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’ |
| 3 | which is more than I can say for the inflatable . |
| 4 | I said , ‘ I 'm so afraid that the motor areas are taking over ; but at least reflex actions are true to oneself , which is more than I can say for blind hatred . ’ |
| 5 | More than I can say for the other fella , Berger . |
| 6 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for your companion . |
| 7 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 8 | That 's a lot more than you can say for Bowe , whose actions in coming to Britain to throw his WBC belt in the dustbin and make Lewis look like a garbage picker was sheer bravado . |
| 9 | ‘ Which is more than you can say for Bella , ’ remarked Cassie cattily . |
| 10 | ‘ More than you can say for her son . ’ |
| 11 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 12 | Which was more than you could say for her and Ross , Laura thought miserably . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is more than we could say for you ! ’ |
| 14 | If you can say for me … |
| 15 | And so it seems to me that erm we must look to you sir and Miss Whittaker to say what you feel as er independent erm hearkeners to the debate er we it 's time as I would say for erm North Yorkshire now to face up to what 's going on in its own territory and remove the planning obstacles to what is actually happening and just to make sure that it 's safely tied up with criteria to make sure it does n't erm erm unhappy consequences instead of the happy consequences that we are trying to achieve . |