Example sentences of "say [prep] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The things people say about us are often too bad or too nice , ’ said Jean-Marie Gerbeaux , the Disney director of communications , with the professional goodwill for which his organisation is famed . |
| 2 | What I say about it is that if they are put off they should phone the police . |
| 3 | She picked up her cup , and said in a voice as cool as she could make it , ‘ Yes , I have heard of Miss Foy , and what you say of her is true . |
| 4 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 5 | Well I , that 's what I say to it 's , it 's not a I mean your four door and the , the plastic pass is in one side |
| 6 | Alright well , generally then I think from hearing what you 're saying , erm , some good points , some perhaps things that you 'd do differently next time , and then what it obviously says about you is that , you 're all managers and you all have different styles , and you possibly do things in different ways . |
| 7 | She 's not said about me being out of it , but erm , see if you do that , you see , you get a year in France . |
| 8 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 9 | ‘ If all that is said about you is true , then you ought to know , ’ Jehan observed . |
| 10 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |
| 11 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 12 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 13 | The reality that those things were being said of her was just beyond her comprehension , and for myself I have never heard something so outrageous in all my life . ’ |
| 14 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 15 | From what we have said above it is clear that there is no single structure for reports , although what follows can be used as a model : |
| 16 | You can see it 's a tense game er we 've said before it 's a local derby and er there are one or two minor problems . |
| 17 | birth and as we 've said before it is often found in abnormal presentation like a breach , bottom first . |
| 18 | ‘ What this says to me is that the middle and upper classes are being taught how to control the machine , and the lower class is being controlled by it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | What this photograph says to me is not that happiness is gone for ever , but that it 's repeatable . |
| 20 | So I said Lesley , she says to me are you in agreement with her ? |
| 21 | And she says ah David 's er she says later on in the day she says to him are you playing ? |
| 22 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 23 | I says to him be prepared for a bill said I do n't mind paying for one , but |
| 24 | I 've done that , cos what I 've said to them is well it 's , it 's too much for you to do all the extensions together . |
| 25 | And we can think of other people like Mother Theresa too , in the face of so much er you know what people have said to her is , you know , do n't you think that er what you 're doing is just a drop in the ocean ? |
| 26 | But everything I 've said to you is based on the Registry files . ’ |
| 27 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 28 | To understand the meaning of what is said to us is a cultural accomplishment that we take for granted . |
| 29 | Well was n't Dawn saying about they 're going to go to France this year or something ? |
| 30 | Cos it 's it 's puts it do , I know you were saying about it 's difficult to answer yes or no to a question but i in this case it 's really true because I answered no but I 've I 've got erm I mean I 've I 've got a degree in politics and I studied er , I did a a course women in politics |