Example sentences of "[conj] say it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 2 | As enforcement of water pollution regulations places demands on polluters of time , manpower , and money , one of the basic premises informing routine pollution control work is the assumption that every discharger has a substantial economic incentive to evade enforcement : ‘ Everyone will try to get out of it , or say it was n't them . ’ |
| 3 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |
| 4 | " He did more than say it , I can tell you . |
| 5 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 6 | That he neither sees it nor says it . |
| 7 | Colin gave that smile of familiarity , that smile of superiority , that certain smile that says it all . |
| 8 | Networx is venture-backed with funding from Vanguard Venture Partners and Paragon Venture Partners with a business plan that says it can be a $35m to $50m company . |
| 9 | I think we can protect our children much better than we do , for one thing there is a law that says it 's illegal to sell tobacco to children under sixteen , that law is flouted every day in a large proportion of the , er the shops in this city and in Scotland . |
| 10 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 11 | Family 's Open Day — the picture that says it all . |
| 12 | It 's a kiss that says it all . |
| 13 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 15 | That sound posher than saying it 's the phone-in number . |
| 16 | It 's crazy , it 's crazy , if only people again 'd sit back and look at it and see exactly what 's happening , rather than saying it serves them right , they should n't of done this , they should n't of got themselves into that position they 're in that position |
| 17 | Mrs Sheblee said : ‘ We kept ringing for explanations but they refused to discuss it other than to say it would cost another £1,000 . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season and I ca n't explain it any other way than to say it 's bad luck . |
| 19 | When confronted on the issue by reporters Bush angrily refused " to take any sleazy questions like that " and stated that he would not respond to it " other than to say it is a lie " . |
| 20 | Sroud District Council refused to comment on the Ropers case other than to say it had acted completely correctly in all its dealings with the couple . |
| 21 | ‘ You look twenty years younger since you 've lost that weight , ’ — and it was more than one that said it too ! |
| 22 | Then , as now , each year could be defined by one king-hell slice of perfect pop that said it all . |
| 23 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 24 | Mrs Travers seemed to think that said it all . |
| 25 | Do n't forget that King Fahd issued a fatwah to the effect that the earth was flat , and that anybody that said it was round was insulting the Muslim religion . |
| 26 | Roman exclaimed in satisfaction and , turning into a wide drive , pulled up in front of a building that said it was a motor halt . |
| 27 | He instructed me to look after you , ’ she finished with a look that said it was no use arguing . |
| 28 | He walked free after embarrassing the RSPCA by producing a book written by one of its own experts that said it was safe to leave fish home alone for up to two weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 30 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |