Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in terms of the recommendations , and I shall very , very quickly come to those , and deal with those very quickly , Chair , erm , I should just say to you that the , be , beware of structuralism . |
| 2 | You should just say to her |
| 3 | I must just say to yo , you 're dying to ask , like what he 's doing over the corner ? |
| 4 | Und the money , Alice — I should not say to you this — it walks away from him … ’ |
| 5 | You must also say to your children : ‘ If you are going to stay out , you must ring me however late and I wo n't be angry . ’ |
| 6 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 7 | Fairfax should now say to the assembled Masai : ‘ Whatever happens to her she will always remember that it was the Masai who showed her that the human race shares one , universal , spirit . ’ |
| 8 | One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine . |
| 9 | I should n't say to anything to Miss cos we do n't know what she got . |
| 10 | I bet she 's got ta get irate and ring me back , tell Geoff what I said , I thought well I do n't care , she 's speaks it and I 'll just say to her quietly well , you know I said now Marie 's done this to Geoff after all his hard work and he 's helped his worry anyway then defies him , he begs her to leave and she defied and she 's moved . |
| 11 | So I mean , I 'm not gon na point the questions at anyone in particular , I 'm just like have them answered , but I might just say to is this normal for her to be late . |
| 12 | And he 'll often say to me look there 's a fresh box under there , help yourself to what you want , i have n't opened that box . |
| 13 | He might then say to himself , as indeed I did , ‘ Well , this is power to give directions with a view to a hearing in seven days ' time , at which hearing there will be a determination of a particular question which has arisen between the parties . ’ |
| 14 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 15 | It 'd be real easy — I 'd just say to myself ‘ Well , I think I 'll just pop over and see Marie today ’ , and five minutes later I 'd be there and we could have tea together , then if I did n't want to stay the night I 'd just fly into the sky again and stay there . |
| 16 | Vincent had not tumed up and he wondered what he could possibly say to him when — or if — he did . |
| 17 | Chris Patten could reasonably say to house-builders : Go to MK . |
| 18 | She could n't say to him , if once I let you in you 'll take the whole thing over — and me as well . |
| 19 | I said yes , your best without him are n't you , which I could n't say to her before of course . |
| 20 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 21 | He could then say to the impostor : " Look here , it is useless to go on pretending . |
| 22 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 23 | It seemed to Harry that there was nothing he could usefully say to this bewildering and terrifying man , and indeed that he was not required to speak . |
| 24 | The minister could never say to the board , ‘ right , now you have a logical remit , go away and fulfil it and so long as your rate of return is what it ought to be , we will not interfere ’ ( SCNI 1968 : 431 , 434–6 ) . |
| 25 | A master printer need only say to the artist , ‘ We need more yellow ’ , to qualify for ownership rights to any reproduction of the image that has emerged under his hand . |
| 26 | But we know something else about the bishop 's motive which he could not or would not say to Ramsey . |
| 27 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 28 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
| 29 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 30 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |