Example sentences of "say [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the study of onomatopoeia , and of imitative effects generally , has been vitiated by a tendency to assume that there is a direct evocative connection between a particular sound and a particular reference , say between an /s/ sound and the sighing of the wind or ( here ) the hiss of a steam-engine . |
| 2 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , if a good sleep is imperative , say before an important meeting , then a short-acting hypnotic might be helpful ( it needs to be short-acting or its effects might last into the next waking period ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I could run a club like this , ’ they say in an expansive sort of way , leaning back as they enunciate every word ever so carefully . |
| 5 | Does a failure to give you a pay rise , say on an annual basis , amount to constructive dismissal ? |
| 6 | English is of this type , as can be seen in any multiple language notice , say on an international flight . |
| 7 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |
| 8 | As I da da , as Dave says as an overall percentage or to do it as we always do as a , as a termly figure . |
| 9 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |
| 10 | Thus a given verbal lexeme such as " exist " can be said of an infinite number of different supports : I exist , you exist , this chair exists , etc . |
| 11 | Lastly , the sentence , which was said with an Irish accent and a ‘ dead-pan ’ face , is n't particularly logical . |
| 12 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 13 | David France , business manager of the Darlington branch of Barclays Bank and a member of the Middleton St George Conservative Association , says in an open letter to Alan Milburn that business has prospered and jobs have been created . |
| 14 | ‘ Rory , ’ she says to an elderly man sitting to my right , ‘ give the girl a chair now , wo n't you ! ’ |
| 15 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 16 | ’ I 'm sorry , ’ she was saying in an icy tone about as distant from an apology as one can go . |
| 17 | The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah was right when he said of an unlikely event that you might as well expect a leopard to change its spots . |
| 18 | ’ I thought you 'd have noticed the man , ’ Chertro said with an echoing laugh . |
| 19 | ‘ I like your determination , ’ Wynne-Jones said with an affectionate squeeze of her arm . |
| 20 | ‘ It was n't much good as a sanctuary , either , ’ Brenner said with an odd cackle . |
| 21 | ‘ I can go to my own bathroom and see to things myself , ’ Maggie said with an anxious look at him . |
| 22 | ‘ You still have n't told me about this evidence you have against me , ’ Claudia said with an assumed air of indifference . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , for God 's sake , ’ Jack said with an embarrassed laugh . |
| 24 | ‘ I hear you 're leaving us , ’ he said with an easygoing grin . |
| 25 | ‘ Wrong , ’ he said with an eager grin . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , really ! ’ she said with an angry smile . |
| 27 | ‘ That , ’ she said with an angry smile , ‘ is still none of your business ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That 's that ! ’ he said with an expansive feeling of well-being . |
| 29 | ‘ Have it your own way , then , ’ he said with an unperturbed shrug of his shoulders . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , come , now , ’ he said with an unpleasant silkiness . |