Example sentences of "say that to " in BNC.

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1 In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop .
2 Just say that to yourself : ‘ It was n't me . ’ ’
3 Say that to anyone else , ’ Short muttered without looking up from his fried egg , ‘ and I 'll see you in court . ’
4 We have a strong tendency to reject it — ‘ Go on , you say that to all your sales people ! ’
5 Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ?
6 Well just say that to her , it 's a long distance and er , will you , will you call me back on this number ?
7 Say that to me again , Phil .
8 ‘ David Ricalde says that to him Manu is Peru .
9 White says that to be a clavicle , the specimen should have an S- or sigmoid curie , but it does not .
10 Dataquest says that to date much of the growth in the Unix market has been in the scientific and engineering world , but that future growth will be more business-oriented .
11 UI says that to be selected as a reference technology a company will now have to promise to provide snapshots for early access , follow established licensing and conformance guidelines which do not include pricing , and adhere to evolution requirements .
12 Amzallag says that to be successful ‘ it is not enough to be technically good .
13 The knowledge of being adopted can have various effects — Triseliotis ( 1973 ) says that to be comfortable as an adoptee it is necessary to cope with both the loss of birth parents and their implicit rejection .
14 Everyone says that to me , Ruth thought ; everyone wants me to bring them Undry … and I 've promised it to Fand , but I do n't know now whether she 's alive or dead .
15 Editor , — Vivienne van Someren does not state in her editorial ( 5 December ) the Department of Health criteria for part time senior registrar training , but Sunita Shrotria says that to work part time ‘ one must be looking after small children , or caring for a disabled relative . ’
16 I says that to Mrs she said I 'll see if I can afford one before Christmas .
17 She always says that to her gramps in the morning .
18 I know , every , everyone says that to me , it 's not fair .
19 He says that to me and then he turns round and says that they were all taking the piss out of Gemma because she 's got thunder thighs and she has n't , that 's the whole point !
20 I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK .
21 She 'd never said that to him before — nor indeed to anyone in her whole life .
22 I 've never said that to anyone — admitted I have family problems on occasions , that is .
23 Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him .
24 ‘ If you 'd have said that to Led Zeppelin , ’ postulates Derry , ‘ they 'd have had their manager f—ing shoot you ! ’
25 When she 'd said that to Pascoe she 'd realized it was true .
26 However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ .
27 You 're the first person I 've said that to who said come back to me and said yes .
28 I it did I mean I thought afterwards I should n't have said that to er John because he would be thinking , Oh here 's negative Nelly coming along .
29 Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use .
30 No , no , not , not sort of getting at , anyway I had just said that to father you see
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