Example sentences of "say [prep] [det] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 2 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 3 | Never ever had half as much wage as I really should 've had and I say to that 's never bothered me . |
| 4 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 5 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 6 | In fact as I 've said above that 's really the least important part . |
| 7 | The criticism is at times sharp , and the Friend is indicted of self-love , ‘ the most inhibited sin in the canon ’ , as the Clown says in All 's Well , doubtless aware of the seriousness of his words . |
| 8 | Something of what Locke would have said to this is already contained in the Essay . |
| 9 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 10 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 11 | ( All you can say about that is that it 's a change from bagpipes . ) |
| 12 | I think all I can say about that is I think the introduction of the new part timer the new , two or whatever you wan na call her . |
| 13 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 14 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 15 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |
| 16 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |
| 17 | All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has . |
| 18 | All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner . |