Example sentences of "[adj] and say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I I can understand if we did n't handle it carefully , it could mean people would be more demanding and say , I 'm entitled to go on this training . |
| 2 | Erm if the water 's very high and say we have a little a little pipe coming through there in the bottom . |
| 3 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
| 4 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’ |
| 6 | The Philistines ' camp is close enough for them to hear the noise , and when they learn its meaning they are afraid and say , ‘ A god has come into the camp . ’ |
| 7 | Even if you are totally fearless and say things like ‘ Ha ! |
| 8 | But I have to be honest and say we tried to join flesh again all our lives . |
| 9 | I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast . |
| 10 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have to be honest and say I never marked her as someone who was going to become a great journalist . |
| 12 | I 'd have to be honest and say , yes , I would n't argue , ’ says a married 35-yearold estate agent . |
| 13 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 14 | I 'll be honest and say my fiancé , Craig . |
| 15 | I wanted to be honest and say I 'd |
| 16 | Think the only thing you can do is as I say be honest and say that , you know , you 're very worried about your fingers |
| 17 | If they ask you about Margaret , look sad and say how much you once admired her . |
| 18 | In passing sentence the judge was advised to place his hand on the head of the accused and say , |
| 19 | It is obvious , too , that image and language become combined in a more pervasive and subtle way still to give some words a gender — as in European languages — although they appear neutral : I find it a constant effort of will to look at picture books with my three-year-old and say ‘ That 's the farmer and that 's the farmer 's husband ’ . |
| 20 | I think they 'd be disgusted and say oh that 's disgusting cos they know what she 's really like . |
| 21 | Why , they take the piss out of you all week and then they 're suddenly all friendly and say how so and so |
| 22 | say she 's a bit depressed and say |
| 23 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 24 | Could I be before you answer that question , you did ask , did n't you , ask him to be hypothetical and say what would he say in a year 's time , and I think what |
| 25 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 26 | Ok I agree that Speed should be given a chance in the middle of the park now I 'll be controversial and say leave Batty out let Speed do the tackling with Mc Allister also in the middle . |
| 27 | And if you 're a er golfer er you might go to the professional and say you know I 'm miss I 'm hooking , you know , can you show me how I ca n't do this ? |
| 28 | Right okay log on to the network , get into Microfit , call up Q M four FIT and say data last of the finished testing for structural change and then we 'll move on to and diagnostics |
| 29 | Right , the national curriculum levels I am nearly o of the opinion to be almost glib and say there will be a space that is about a third of a sheet of A four , it 's down to every department to do their own I nearly said , I do n't care , I often do care |
| 30 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |