Example sentences of "[conj] saying " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome to planet Tokyo , New York without the noise , the dirt and the violence , where saying ‘ motherfucker ’ is just another way of denying an indigenous culture that 's slowly being buried ; just another way of saying , ‘ I love Johnny Rotten and Ronald McDonald . ’ |
| 2 | People are always asking me why I dress strangely , or saying , ‘ What does your mother think of your outfits ? ’ |
| 3 | Q. Complete this well-known phrase or saying : ‘ She would n't say … to a goose ? |
| 4 | Would it not be more like Satan to shoot a dart into the dreams of an unsuspecting person , so that he foresees a plane crash without any hope of helping or saying the situation ? |
| 5 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 6 | More ordinarily , they form the stuff of everyday relationships as we blame or criticize others for doing or saying the things we feel inside ourselves . |
| 7 | She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister . |
| 8 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 9 | If using a longer message or saying , you could insert thin decorative lines between each line of text . |
| 10 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 11 | a clean pair of heels , or saying ‘ that 's |
| 12 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 13 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 14 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 15 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 16 | This may be said to constitute evidence that the speaker views [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] as ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ . |
| 17 | Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying . |
| 18 | ‘ What is more embarrassing : using the wrong spoon , or saying the wrong thing in bed ? ’ |
| 19 | With a taboo a person can not allow himself to see himself doing or saying something — it is an infringement of his image . |
| 20 | And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all . |
| 21 | He was burning up with fever , probably not even fully aware of what he was doing or saying . |
| 22 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 23 | being afraid what sort of things scared ah what people might think or saying |
| 24 | The idea of trusting anyone , or saying what I think , I find daunting and frightening . |
| 25 | Do n't you think he 's , he 's asking to much or , or saying that the peasants are doing too much . |
| 26 | Do n't bother thinking about hitting me or saying anything about me cos I 'm swear when I catch you I 'll kill you . |
| 27 | The danger is when they 're the ones that if they 're the ones that stop other people sorting out their own feelings and emotions erm and I think in the work that I 've done in schools and in other situations following disasters one of the biggest problems has been that those expressing denial or saying that we should be able to cope with this , children are resilient , they do n't have these problems , erm they 've often stopped people getting the help that they need ; often stopped other teachers getting the help that they need . |
| 28 | They work far beyond their contracts , without any asking or saying . |
| 29 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 30 | Richard now admitted to himself that they might be lost after all but knew instinctively that saying so to Victoria would destroy the flattering confidence she placed in him . |