Example sentences of "she [verb] say [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be her word against ours , even if she dares to say anything , ’ one of the other men argued . |
| 2 | She planned to say nothing about her ram-raid revenge — but contacted police to confess when they appealed for witnesses . |
| 3 | Her thoughts were still so full of Mo : she thought that if she tried to say anything , she would have to lie down on the bed and howl . |
| 4 | She feels she has to say something . |
| 5 | But she has said nothing of that . |
| 6 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 7 | April might have forbidden Wee Charlie to have any more lemonade , but she 'd said nothing about sweets . |
| 8 | The mockery made her wish she 'd said nothing — she had n't helped Berenice , Dana or herself . |
| 9 | She lifted an enquiring eyebrow , wondering if it would have suited his purposes if she 'd said nothing , because he could then have accused her of theft . |
| 10 | She 'd said nothing of love . |
| 11 | She 'd said something about being careful with her blood sugar ; nothing as serious as diabetes , but something she had to watch . |
| 12 | She turned to say something about this to Caspar and then stopped and listened , because now — yes , surely — there was the faint eerily beautiful singing of the sidh . |
| 13 | Was she going to say something ? |
| 14 | She began to say something else but never completed it . |
| 15 | She began to say something else and then changed her mind . |
| 16 | Peering again at the list of medications , she started to say something to Elinor , then stopped short , remembering that Adam was in the room . |
| 17 | She started to say something , but then stopped . |
| 18 | She decided to say nothing ; instead she smiled , making him smile , too . |
| 19 | Then she all at once became aware that Ven was looking at her seriously , all mockery , however gentle , gone , and suddenly she was feeling quite breathless , and discovering that she needed to say something , and quite urgently , to get her over that breathless feeling . |
| 20 | Hardly the most appropriate thing to say when he was helping her , but she had to say something , anything , to hide her flustered response to being this close to him . |
| 21 | Folly knew she was taking a risk , but she had to say something . |
| 22 | She had to say something fast and make it convincing . |
| 23 | Oh I said , well she had to say something gave the three back , get her flowers and er chocolates or something and the same for his mum . |
| 24 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 25 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 26 | But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night . |
| 27 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 28 | All Irene said to me was that what worried her was that ‘ she had said nothing to her ’ . |
| 29 | She had said nothing . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Havvie , ’ Sally-Anne murmured ; this was going to be even harder than she had thought — and she had said nothing to her uncle Orrin — she could not , not until her engagement was irrevocably over . |