Example sentences of "say [pron] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	But as you say you at that point you do have to stop .
2	She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday .
3	The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day .
4	And you wo n't be saying anything to that ponce of a boss you 've got , Howard ? ’
5	Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it .
6	Well , Pete decided to say nothing on that subject .
7	Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending .
8	I said something to that effect , in a churlish tone — manners are something else we have not learnt at that age .
9	Wo would er any of you animal eaters like to say something about that position ?
10	put the onus back on me now to say what of that stock we want to keep before they throw it away .
11	And ever since then I 've thought , ‘ Well , you do n't know the situation , circumstances or anything , so who am I to say anything about that person ?
12	John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way .
13	To quote Bertrand Russell , every language has a structure about which one can say nothing in that language .
14	Can I say something to that question .
15	In the next section , I offer some brief and critical remarks about a recent attempt to provide a general descriptive account of how knowledge develops which would say something to that issue .
16	I 'm not suggesting anything do n't say it in that tone of voice !

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