Example sentences of "say to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know how it is , ’ he would say to their hosts , on the pretext of apologising for arriving late , ‘ She could n't find a thing to wear . |
| 2 | They have n't got one and I 'll s er say this as I 've said everything on the wireless or anything , whatever I 've said I 'll say to their face , and I can slot the num perhaps they ca n't prove everything but you know it 's there . |
| 3 | So obviously managers , who 've given some members of their staff trunk access 3 , which is very low , which is Oxford , can say to their staff , ‘ Right , phone New York , phone Florence , phone this , phone that , and get me a list of all these things ’ , and they can do it , because the system does n't look for their code , does n't look for their limiting trunks , erm trunk access code 40 , everybody can use system abbreviated numbers , hash 6 . |
| 4 | Suggesting something which the child can say to himself/herself in a crisis ( 'self-talk ’ ) can be surprisingly helpful : ‘ I am in control ; I can manage . |
| 5 | The notion of asking ‘ circular questions ’ is a helpful way of developing these interactions , i.e. ‘ Mrs Smith , you had a similar experience to Mr White , how did you cope ? ’ , or ‘ You 've taken tranquillizers in the past and gave them up , what would you say to somebody like Mrs Jones ? ’ |
| 6 | Did Karen say to somebody on that thing did I hear her say , What are you on ? |
| 7 | And the last thing you wan na say to somebody who 's gon na be marking your paper is , oh yeah I stayed up all night revising for this . |
| 8 | So so you 'd say to yourself , Right |
| 9 | You might say to yourself , well is this a very rare occurrence , so that really this branch is making a fuss about nothing , branches do n't have to go through appeals procedures , cos it never happens . |
| 10 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 11 | And when you do this , you can say to yourself , you can see is it really something that 's important . |
| 12 | . You might say to yourself , well , how serious is this problem , is it just another er , American thing . |
| 13 | I think I 'll say to yourself and to Bill , students in future |
| 14 | Then , as with fuller information he feels himself being moved in the opposite direction , he can say to himself ‘ Ah , now I see why I ought not to go ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 16 | He might then say to himself , as indeed I did , ‘ Well , this is power to give directions with a view to a hearing in seven days ' time , at which hearing there will be a determination of a particular question which has arisen between the parties . ’ |
| 17 | Every Buttermere neighbour and old wrestling foe would be given a free mug of beer as his first drink and throughout the day Joseph would ask a little — often useless — favour here , another there in order to keep them within his ken : so that they kept their eyes , he would say to himself , on the signals coming from the flagship . |
| 18 | Granted , he 'd say to himself , I 've never been in a situation where an abortion has been necessary . |
| 19 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 20 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
| 21 | ‘ She should get married again , ’ I heard Tessa say to her mother-in-law on the telephone . |
| 22 | I was gon na say to her ai n't a chair big enough ? |
| 23 | My mother turned round and said , well you should , you tell her , you should say to her look , I 'm next ! |
| 24 | I , I was gon na say to her mind our |
| 25 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 26 | I suppose if you were either one of them it would be nice but I 'd go out and say to them , ‘ David , it 's time for us to do a vocal now ’ and Angie would say , ‘ Oh , Davey Wavey , do you have to leave me now ? ’ , to which he 'd reply , ‘ Oh , Angie Pangie , I suppose I do — old Uncle Tony wants me in the studio . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , Agnes knew in advance what the visitor would say to them , and she is hardly surprised . |
| 28 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 29 | Then I will say to them , ‘ I never knew you . |
| 30 | When socialists in the north grew dispirited I would say to them ‘ When you die you shall go to West Ham ’ . |