Example sentences of "to [pers pn] and say " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she reached the main road she did n't know which direction to take , but seeing two men accompanied by two women she hurried to them and said , ‘ Would you , please direct me to the cab rank ? ’ |
| 2 | She loved to hear how she had pointed to them and said , ‘ Moo ! ’ and we had said , ‘ No , darling . |
| 3 | JP : ‘ I wrote to them and said ‘ I ca n't afford to buy your records , so will you take a couple of ours and swap ? ’ |
| 4 | Er he he he had been , in verse twenty five , now great multitudes were going along with him , and he turned to them and said to them , and you got there what he tell , what he says , he 's talking about discipleship , and of the importance of following him , and the cost that will be involved in following him , and the responsibility of those who follow him , that they are to be salt within their generation , within their environment . |
| 5 | And then we wrote back to them and said we are very likely getting funding from , in which case can we use your money for other purposes er Well one reason specifically said chairs . |
| 6 | we have gone to them and said look it 's six eight or seven |
| 7 | All , all of these companies to them and said if you endorse this we 'll give you . |
| 8 | wrote to them and said yes I 'd be interested but I have n't heard anything since . |
| 9 | On this occasion they did not come to us and say right we want to negotiate , although several times we went to them and said please , here 's our budget , you know , our budget is now ready , we want to negotiate . |
| 10 | Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off ! |
| 11 | I had to go over to them and say , I 'm sorry but we 're going to have to close for a bit . |
| 12 | And I 've wanted to say that to someone who 's just staring at me , just go up to them and say , all of me , the whole fucking thing , take it . |
| 13 | the shock , go up to them and say you know , have you had your right amount or have you taken some sugar and very often they 'll pull up and ah yes I 've overdone it . |
| 14 | could speak to them and say erm give them some encouragement to go and have a look and see if there 's any hostels or something . |
| 15 | There 's no way I 'm gon na turn round to them and say , Get stuffed . |
| 16 | Go and talk to them and say look , this is what we can provide to you . |
| 17 | All we 'd of done was taken pigeonholes and go to them and say do n't want |
| 18 | But there is a tendency to point to them and say " It is impossible to believe " that such complexity , or such perfection , could have evolved by natural selection . |
| 19 | but obviously it 's pretty busy now but you know we can go to them and say this is what we found , you know |
| 20 | But it would be no good to them and say well you know right in the middle of nowhere , cow er sheep or cow country , there are a number of courses we would n't touch because we would n't be able to get enough sus er you know even with five erm major businesses . |
| 21 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 22 | Do you go up to them and say , I like you ? |
| 23 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 24 | feel as if they 're being extorted and they will look to them and say well this is obviously the , the case whether this particular guy who is , who is our erm leader is , is erm |
| 25 | getting the response , if you 're getting that type of excuse that comes out , then that 's when you need to go back to them and say , well hang on , this is not good enough ! |
| 26 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 27 | Therefore if Regional Railways wants us to do it , I think we have , there is some merit in us going back to them and saying , yes , we 'll do it . |
| 28 | What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah . |
| 29 | The white man returns to me and says , ‘ Joseph , I have bought your horses , and you must let me have them . ’ |
| 30 | Halfway through , the pilot turns to me and says ‘ Do you want to handle the controls ? ’ |