Example sentences of "say [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 2 | I 'll meet you there , then , say about one o'clock ? ’ |
| 3 | Many larger personal injury firms have augmented key date systems by generating reports at various intervals from the opening of a case ( say after one , three , five , seven and ten years ) . |
| 4 | Now that is accepted by all and I 've discussed it recently I say with one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . |
| 5 | Well , she 'll repent of it and agree to all I say before one crumb , or one drop of water , crosses her lips . |
| 6 | you find out where it is , and you inform base which is here , that there 's a fire , say in one of the chutes , and er the fire brigade will be informed . |
| 7 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Take courage , ’ they say to one another , ‘ fight , ’ and ‘ be men . ’ |
| 9 | To explore the differences between written dialogue and what people actually say to one another we need to examine the relationship between the written word and other aspects of lived experience . |
| 10 | This is normal , they say to one another ; all that time before , which we thought was normal , was n't normal at all . |
| 11 | Someone says about one or two o'clock . |
| 12 | but , but then we are con , if the argument on the one hand is we should conform to what the government 's saying and I 'm saying that 's what the government says as one of the general areas we should address I ca n't be wrong both ways if you follow my drift ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not quite sackcloth and ashes but the new look does emphasise natural materials in natural colours , ’ says of one of London 's senior fashion commentators . |
| 14 | I think erm it does tie in erm er what you 've just said with one of the points that made at the P P C day , that the P P C now has no representatives ' organizations or parish organizations . |
| 15 | Doctor and pathologist Professor Pietro Croce says in one of his articles : ‘ One only needs to find the appropriate animal species to obtain the desired result . |
| 16 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 17 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 18 | They had n't said to one another that they could n't understand his talk about the Abigails and the Dasses and Mr Plant or the Artilleryman 's Friend . |
| 19 | AB WE TEL MIN The sensation that one neither agrees nor disagrees with what is being said to one , but that one simply wishes to depart from the presence of the speaker |
| 20 | M Mr Deputy Speaker , you will have seen if you read these er orders in front of us today running to at least er I reckon about ten thousand words , but by and large , all and sundry are going to be bote , er going to be out of vote on June the ninth , citizens of the European union and the minister has actually said on one or two occasions , all citizens of the union , well it is not true that all citizens of the union will be able to vote on er June the ninth . |
| 21 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 22 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 23 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 24 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 25 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 26 | For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another : |
| 27 | It was said by one snobbish acquaintance that — ‘ There is no honour in dining with Piper for he invites everyone . ’ |
| 28 | And that does n't mean what it would mean if said by one of your generation ! ’ |
| 29 | Tacitly , he made room for Darwin 's science and was even said by one observer to have espoused Darwin 's ideas fully . |
| 30 | Anyone listening to 606 on Radio 5 last saturday : can they enlarge on what the Leeds fan was saying about one of the managers at Elland Road — one Alan Roberts I think . |