Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother turned round and said , well you should , you tell her , you should say to her look , I 'm next ! |
| 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 | ‘ Well , that 's what I 'll say in my defence when I get back . |
| 4 | All three on the other hand , and here Blanche was imagining what Parkin might say in his defence once in the interview room , had a good reason to want to see the blame for the murder transferred to Parkin should they have killed Nicola themselves . |
| 5 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 6 | One thing you could say for my daughter , she never let herself go . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , hen , you 're a messy one , ’ she 'd say with her laugh . |
| 8 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 9 | There might be a yachtsman come along and he 'd want a mooring , so he 'd say to my father , can you fix us up yes , get an old bit of chain and put round , put some wooden wed wedges in tighten 'em up , up , that 's his , that 's his mooring , he 'd take it somewhere in the river , have it dumped , put a buoy on it , that was , that 's like his anchor . |
| 10 | And er , a lot of them were younger than me , but I do n't know why but I 've lasted lo But anyway , m me and me sister we always used to , we 'd say to me dad when we went to fetch the milk with me dad . |
| 11 | He returned home rehearsing what he would say to his father . |
| 12 | ‘ These people were glad I was there , ’ North would say of his time in Vietnam , in sharp contradistinction to the way most Americans seemed to feel about it . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ What do you think Father will say to your proposal ? ’ |
| 15 | When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before . |
| 16 | When I am dead my greatest wish is that people will say of my work , no one saw in that way before . |
| 17 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 18 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 19 | Benjamin , we may say to his credit , seems to have taken to Curry Rivel like a fish to water , and would stay there until the day he died . |
| 20 | The best I think we can say about our scheme is something that Brian Barry argues . |
| 21 | ‘ More than you can say for her son . ’ |
| 22 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 23 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for your companion . |
| 24 | By contrast with France , where Jean-Marie Le Pen can say of his party that ‘ the original is better than the copy ’ , in Britain most regard the Conservative Party as the original , especially as now confirmed by the election campaign . |
| 25 | Or a child can say to its mother , angry at finding a valuable vase broken , the dog did it . |
| 26 | THE BEST THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR HAIRDRESSER |
| 27 | The true mark of the Spirit 's operation is when a man can say from his heart that Jesus is his Lord . |
| 28 | Erm , all I can say from his view point , erm , totally bored , nothing to , educated . |
| 29 | ‘ You are being very naughty , ’ McAllister whispered back , pretending to be severe , ‘ and the only thing that I can say in your favour is that I am in nearly as bad a way as you are , and know exactly how you feel — but be patient , it can not be long now , ’ for she knew that once the bazaar was over , and she was at last able to tell him the truth , they could go ahead with their marriage plans , the only delaying thing being the time it would take Mama and Papa to cross the Atlantic . |
| 30 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |