Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept what I say about industrial matters , he will perhaps listen to the head of the Swedish employers federation , who said that the Community should learn from Sweden : ’ It could above all avoid mistakes when it comes to regulations based on the social charter . |
| 3 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 4 | You have time to digest the unexpected worm , as they say about early birds ! |
| 5 | On the hon. Gentleman 's first question , I am not responsible for what the press say about particular matters . |
| 6 | Well if what you say about this information that was in the master bedroom is true , they might have every reason to come into the master bedroom to see if er the , who was sleeping in the . |
| 7 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |
| 8 | Alison say about previous ideas , what 's that . |
| 9 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 10 | cos er and if you say for all enquiries please call that . |
| 11 | Knowing , for example , that the firm will have a cash surplus , say for two months prior to the payment of a large creditor , such as the Inland Revenue , means that the company will be able to arrange to deposit cash over this period to obtain the maximum returns . |
| 12 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 13 | OR A SAY FOR DISABLED STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS |
| 14 | What if , say for local example , the principal of the Glasgow School of Art , his leg broken while foolishly roaming the hills in the amateurish manner of town dwellers , and also brought half-dead to Castle Bewick should spy , carelessly hidden beneath a sofa-cushion , a drawing of such rare and touching brilliance that he too , broken leg notwithstanding , should limp forward , eyes blazing , the paper shaking in his hand … |
| 15 | see what they say for ten minutes . |
| 16 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 17 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 18 | Senior officers have an exclusive say for thirty-six hours and thereafter an influential say before magistrates on how long a suspect should be kept in custody . |
| 19 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 20 | Right , what 's , perhaps I should have started with , with the contrasting picture in which , at the level of intellect , erm , there would be no individual forms , but only forms say for human beings . |
| 21 | They 've bought them off yo them off you , say for three pound |
| 22 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |
| 23 | It 's up to thee months , I say after three months no good taking anything at all because you 'd never lose it , not after three months . |
| 24 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 25 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 26 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 27 | Consequently they sound stilted and reluctant and rob what they say of much reward value . |
| 28 | as I say of different people |
| 29 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 30 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |