Example sentences of "[conj] say [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except to say that it was scrupulously chosen , as was usual with Eliot , I forget what we ate on the occasion : we had so much to talk about . |
| 2 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 3 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 4 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 5 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 6 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 7 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 8 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 9 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 10 | The Government complained about the cost and said that it was not a matter for them or that matters were not that bad . |
| 11 | So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ? |
| 12 | The coach was an Embassy staffer in Rome and said that it was twice as good having helpers who were n't parents . |
| 13 | I 'll ring up and say that it 's not for me . |
| 14 | He admits that he took the vehicle , but says that it was already damaged when he got in or that it was not damaged when he left the scene and that it must have been damaged by someone who took it later . |
| 15 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 16 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |