Example sentences of "say [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 2 | ‘ What do independent experts say about our 10 extra pages ? ’ asks the advertisement . |
| 3 | What we say about it all |
| 4 | He says ; not once has he lost his liberty and we say for his own sake and others there must be consideration about whether he should be put in a secure place . |
| 5 | Griffin is right to the extent that we do entertain fantasies of inhabiting other ‘ skins ’ ( David Garnett 's Lady into Fox ( 1932 ) is a good example of the literary genre , although Kafka 's Metamorphosis ( 1961 ) is pre-eminent in casting the shadows of paradox involved in the attempt ) but the failure to achieve this does not in any way put at risk our understanding of what others say of their own or others ' consciousness . |
| 6 | If your MP solicits your vote , say in your best Godfather voice : ‘ Why do you come to me now ? ’ |
| 7 | Although economics may not be a staple of mass-market science fiction , it is hardly ignored , as you say in your final schools brief on economics ( March 9th ) . |
| 8 | You can even program it to ring your mum , on her birthday , in three months time when you are on holiday and say in your own voice ‘ Happy Birthday , Mum ! ’ . |
| 9 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , as I 'm always sayin' to me old Dutch , what the eyes do n't see the 'eart do n't grieve about , and a bloke 's got to make a livin' some'ow . |
| 11 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 12 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 13 | So when you say to them sorry you do n't get any money because they 're not entitled to it what happens then ? |
| 14 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 15 | Well , as I say to me old mate Keef ( cor , strike a light , there 's a crazy geezer an' no mistake ! ) … |
| 16 | ‘ Today I say to our financial and business leaders that although change is on the horizon , we understand the need to pursue stability even as we pursue new growth . |
| 17 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 18 | But I just say to my honourable friend I do n't think er compulsion er is the route with that we should follow . |
| 19 | I say to my rock-musician friends : ‘ What could be heavier than 15 people all together , blasting out on those bamboo tubes ? |
| 20 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 21 | I say to my hon. Friend — |
| 22 | Dai Qing shocked the audience by declaring : ‘ I do n't care what Binyang says about his second kind of loyalty ; even the third , fourth or fifth kind of loyalty wo n't save China ’ . |
| 23 | Sympathy is often centred upon the younger family , little is said about its indirect effects on old people , who themselves are often reluctant to complain . |
| 24 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 25 | ‘ Is it true what 's said about them two ? ’ |
| 26 | In retrospect , the Luftwaffe 's planning and execution of his combat is hard to fault , whereas the least said about our own efforts the better ! ’ |
| 27 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 28 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 29 | Less is said about his recent life and his marriages . |
| 30 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |