Example sentences of "say of [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 2 | yes , well is there any more you want to say on that , is er , er , er , subject to Mr as you say of course , erm I just simply wanted to know erm so that I can have a , a , a look , erm at what on one view , erm might be the , the case , it might clear be the conclusion that you er incorrect in or partially incorrect or I was unable to answer all the questions er at this stage |
| 3 | ‘ From all you say of Papa , ’ announced Dr Neil naughtily , ‘ I 'm astonished to learn that he went bankrupt . |
| 4 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
| 5 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 6 | She says of ironing , for example , |
| 7 | ‘ If a hotelier says ‘ we are wonderful ’ and the client says ‘ prove it ’ , that is where registration by an independent authority counts , ’ says of MQA . |
| 8 | He says of course we were disappointed in not having the holiday but moreso the children who were absolutely devastates when they heard the news . |
| 9 | Bill Mumford says of course they will make it … they would not be going if they did not think they could do it … they have been well prepared … |
| 10 | I says of course , yes right he says , I really enjoyed he says you know , so I mean that made my day that did Dare n't tell Shirl , sh otherwise she 'll say you 'll do all the cooking ! |
| 11 | ‘ You ai n't really down , between the ages of 13 , 14 , 15 , you 're not really down less you know how to shoot a gun , ’ he says of life in South Central LA . |
| 12 | This is always the way : the oldest temptation is also the most contemporary : Writing in his Notes from Underground Dostoevsky says of man , ‘ If he is not stupid , he is monstrously ungrateful ! |
| 13 | Consider Billy Brace 's letter ( Letters ) which says of Gaelic : ‘ We rarely lament the loss of those languages now ’ . |
| 14 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 15 | Not when there 's a mass being said of course . |
| 16 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 17 | The other aspect I was gon na suggest is I mean , I 've said of stuff of the environment , Terry 's not if we take topics and we say right there 's a I mean , I 've got these boxes I will donate you know , like letter , you know lo lo boxes which can be labelled and all the information on environment goes in there so that perhaps , we made up , you know plastic , hard plastic . |
| 18 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 19 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 20 | One character in The Elder Statesman remarks , " Forgery … is a mug 's game " , which is precisely what Eliot had said of poetry twenty-five years before . |
| 21 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |
| 22 | The same can be said of literature in the broader field of gender and science , where there is much which is of interest to mathematics educators . |
| 23 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 24 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 25 | Little need be said of flower colour for a child 's garden . |
| 26 | The same could be said of carbonate deposition in the mid-Silurian . |
| 27 | The materials may well have improved , but only time will tell if the same can be said of workmanship and design . |
| 28 | The same can not be said of Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus , the monetarist architect of the reform . |
| 29 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 30 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |