Example sentences of "say [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what it was , it was Samsung , if you 've a little bit of tape and you end at beginning and you want it , well say you wanted to tape to test a little bit say off telly or |
| 2 | Shallow alcoves can be used for yet more narrow shelves just the depth of one can or bottle or for mounting a magnetic knife-rack ; awkward spaces , say between stove and storage cabinets , can be used for trays . |
| 3 | Often a wrought iron gate , strategically sited , say between house and garage , can prevent thieves walking openly to the rear . |
| 4 | Waqar , who has just signed a new three-year contract with Surrey , said : ‘ I do n't care what people say about ball-tampering either . ’ |
| 5 | Given the kind of society that we have at the moment , I think so , because in the home — I mean aside from being defined as a housewife — you 're really defined only in relation to other people , so what you say about self definition , erm self fulfilment , is absolutely crucial . |
| 6 | moral insight and belief , terms which cover all the things people think and say about morality , including their willingness to blame others who do wrong . |
| 7 | say about badge 's |
| 8 | As American hot-rodders say about engine capacity : ‘ There ai n't no substitute for cubes ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It must be true after all , what they say about Viking lovers ! ’ |
| 10 | The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . |
| 11 | In view , however , of what he said about student support , compared with what the citizens advice bureaux say about student support — the citizens advice bureaux deal with real students suffering real hardship in the real world , while the Prime Minister hides himself away behind locked gates in 10 |
| 12 | This is what they say about housing : ’ Authorities also own and manage 4 million houses nationally . ’ |
| 13 | you say about Neighbourhood Watch contact |
| 14 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 15 | The third option is to sell the property along with the company but with a legal charge on the property which will ensure that if the property is sold , say for development , within a specified period , the Government will receive a specified share of the development proceeds . |
| 16 | In other words , you could n't stand for office in Harlow and say for instance erm if erm if we er win the election we 're gon na stop the sale of council houses . |
| 17 | If say for instance one moved headlong down the road to European political union and Westminster ended up with something like the powers of Puddlewick District Council |
| 18 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 19 | A double bottom , say for instance , you you might get rivets that were missed out . |
| 20 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 21 | Well you see now , say tea Say for instance it was a shilling . |
| 22 | I have I would say that most of the people who answer yes who have been in say for instance home improvements |
| 23 | So say for instance there the doctors recommended er a newsagent well a newsagent |
| 24 | Well you sort of like say for instance erm we heard of recent burglary . |
| 25 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 26 | It costs just say for instance two hundred pounds for the tractor and , and his sprayer and er the chemicals on top . |
| 27 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 28 | Now say for instance er I do the pots |
| 29 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 30 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |