Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So you used to say in business letters things like I should be grateful if . |
| 32 | Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ . |
| 33 | are most of the programmes are really to do I would say with displacement activities rather than replacement activities . |
| 34 | ‘ Head in a book as usual , ’ Dorothy would say with contempt . |
| 35 | I would say on page twelve , it 's perhaps interesting to look just at the summary there , where you 'll see that your gross expenditure for next year , is now some fifty four million pounds . |
| 36 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 37 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 38 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 39 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 40 | All he would say in return was that he did n't think it was working out ! |
| 41 | ‘ Oh Jessie , she 's no good , ’ she would say in front of the poor , unfortunate Girl . |
| 42 | That is all I would say in conclusion . |
| 43 | ‘ Bloody love , ’ he would say in disgust when asked why he had not enjoyed the film . |
| 44 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 45 | With several well-attended Irish women 's conferences behind us , a well-resourced and staffed Irish Women 's Centre , many autonomous groups and campaigns operating all over London and in other parts of England , I will say with strength and pride that Irish women , whether heterosexual or lesbian , from Anne Devlin to Bernadette , remain the ‘ unmanageable revolutionaires ’ they/we have always been . |
| 46 | You might find it helpful to plan what you will say in advance and to talk it over first with someone you trust and who already knows the situation . |
| 47 | I wonder what you will say in answer to this letter ; I shall await your reply with some anxiety , for if our letters go into the waste paper basket we shall be unable to continue our many services for the benefit of those who are blind . |
| 48 | What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session . |
| 49 | So all you do now , you look at the questions that you 've answered , and let's say for question one , you gave erm , a two to G , the two goes in there , one to F , you move along there , three to H , you move along there . |
| 50 | Now we , let's say for instance we 've got five hundred thousand members of the church , and they in turn have a circle of friends and relatives of ten now you do n't need to be a mathematician to find out that 's five million . |
| 51 | The money would come to you , let's say for instance we started the policy for ten years okay ? |
| 52 | Erm well let's say for example I was in posted in for |
| 53 | Let's say for argument 's sake that Ozric Tentacles , Primal Scream , Soundgarden , Suede , Morrissey and Smashing Pumpkins are in the running . |
| 54 | I may say without vanity that I 'm rarely mistaken in a boy . |
| 55 | ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect . |
| 56 | It was completely contrary to Lord Darlington 's natural tendencies to take such public stances as he came to do and I can say with conviction that his lordship was persuaded to overcome his more retiring side only through a deep sense of moral duty . |
| 57 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 58 | So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases . |
| 59 | All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now . |
| 60 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |