Example sentences of "and say [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 2 | he wanted to be the decision maker , and he wanted to make the decision on every single thing himself and then he was turning round and saying to his secretary , well ca n't you do anything ? |
| 3 | Mr Maxwell was at court and said through his lawyers : ‘ The order for interim payment has been complied with and the petition has been dismissed . ’ |
| 4 | Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 . |
| 5 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
| 6 | On one occasion a boy I rather liked looked at me and said to his group , ‘ Bellezza d'asino ’ ( beauty of a donkey ) , which , strange as it may seem , was meant in Parma as a compliment . |
| 7 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 8 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 9 | Marcus turned to Franca and said in his deep slow honey voice , with his slightly foreign accent , ‘ Please could you move the bed away from the wall . |
| 10 | She touched Midnight 's shoulder and said in his ear : ‘ I 'll not desert thee , ’ then stood up and went to climb down the ladder . |
| 11 | John was stationed near Cambridge and said in his letters that he liked the men he was with . |
| 12 | Dr Neil banged his fist quite gently on the table , and said in his most severe voice , ‘ McAllister ! |
| 13 | But like , wi with the door Dave 's mum 's sister was rubbing it in to try and say to his nan that we were kicking her out and so she got a bit funny over it ! |