Example sentences of "[conj] says you " in BNC.

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1 His owner Dick Knowles told Dogs Today : ‘ There 's nothing in the constitution that says you have to be human to be an MP !
2 He has written a scientific paper in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that says you are likely to have significant long-term reductions in minor health problems if you acquire a dog .
3 Steve has a proverb for us : ‘ There 's a cliché about film criticism that says you ca n't talk your way out of a belly laugh or an erection .
4 If it seems too much to see on one visit , remember there 's no law that says you ca n't come back to Brighton & Hove time and time again .
5 I think that it 's not just the policy , I think it 's the whole of society 's attitudes , because children learn what they are by how people see them , and if they 're in a society that says you 're in an unusual situation , if you 're not with two parents then somehow your situation is n't right and we condemn it !
6 The big thing there is there 's no rule in life that says you know if someone says Five them you must draw five centimetres .
7 There 's the one that says you can get up to two years for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ .
8 Opting out of schools , opting out of the N H S and trying to opt out of Europe , but what you forgot is that your leader signed a document that says you ca n't opt out of Europe .
9 But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past .
10 ‘ The one that says you own the world and all that 's in it , that says you ca n't for the life of you figure out why I 'm not jumping for joy at the prospect of staying on here , in this house , as your grandmother 's companion . ’
11 and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ?
12 You could almost say there 's a kind of rule that says you ought to write in fairly free verse nowadays and that you 're making a kind of statement if you do n't .
13 I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you .
14 They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it .
15 He gives an example about lifting a heavy weight and doing a multiplication sum at the same time and says you ca n't do it .
16 ‘ Miss Watson called me up to her window , miss , and says you 're to go over there . ’
17 This shows that the Bristol & West is behind you , and says you 're a genuine , serious house-hunter , with real buying power — to be treated with the greatest respect !
18 But when — suddenly — for no apparent reason your twin rejects the offer of marriage from the man you always believed she loved , and whom you always loved yourself ; when she turns round and says you can marry him yourself if you feel that strongly about him … suddenly your world is upside down .
19 go on and says you would n't mind my telly
20 And we , I was sitting up having my break with her one day , right , and your man erm er Frank Bruno and the other feller , that big Mike Tyson were fighting right , and we were sitting watching it right , and erm , Paul was sitting there and all and Margot turned round and says you know , she said it 's desperate Karen !
21 He goes and knocks people 's door and says you 're blocking the pavement !
22 I just get her arms I go like that with her arm , right , and she just lets you do it , she just looks at you and says you 're fucking mad and walks away .
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