Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rapids might look more exciting , but still waters run deep , ’ Jeff used to say to them . |
| 2 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 3 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 4 | " I wonder what Bigwig will say to him ? |
| 5 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 6 | Iago 's exploitation of trust enables him to make Othello kill Desdemona : all that Othello can say at the end is , ‘ Will you , I pray , demand that demi-devil/Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body ? ’ |
| 7 | Mind you , I think they were , going back to George and Norma again , I mean like , how she cuts his hair , style , and Colin 'll say to me , |
| 8 | In other words , the energy release could be determined exactly , whatever Heisenberg might say to the contrary . |
| 9 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 10 | Because the Fire and Rescue Service reductions are unacceptable , and I think this Committee should say to , and to leave that in its proposal to Policy Panel and P and R. |
| 11 | You see , you could say , surely there should n't be a weaning conflict , because an offspring should say to itself , okay , my mother wants to wean me , to have more offspring , but those offspring she 's gon na have are my siblings , I 'm very closely related to them . |
| 12 | So such a child might say to a carer or someone they trust , ‘ Look after my Mummy and Daddy , please , because they are very upset . |
| 13 | I do not pretend to know what the ethics committee would say about that . |
| 14 | What Baden Powell would say to a rap anthem , one can only guess at . |
| 15 | You can imagine what " support " you would get , and what the coach would say to such a programme . |
| 16 | Those who are familiar with this Act would say to him , ‘ Ah , yes , but what happens then ? |
| 17 | ‘ These people were glad I was there , ’ North would say of his time in Vietnam , in sharp contradistinction to the way most Americans seemed to feel about it . |
| 18 | And indeed as Lady Bracknell would say for ready money . |
| 19 | It is unclear at present what the proposal will say about London Weighting ( LW ) . |
| 20 | But it is easy to see what the sceptic will say at this point , quite apart from the implied oddity that there is a claim which I could not be justified in making but which another can be justified in making for me . |
| 21 | By contrast with France , where Jean-Marie Le Pen can say of his party that ‘ the original is better than the copy ’ , in Britain most regard the Conservative Party as the original , especially as now confirmed by the election campaign . |
| 22 | Suggesting something which the child can say to himself/herself in a crisis ( 'self-talk ’ ) can be surprisingly helpful : ‘ I am in control ; I can manage . |
| 23 | Or a child can say to its mother , angry at finding a valuable vase broken , the dog did it . |
| 24 | But if anybody refuses to believe that about 270 B.C. Lycophron could say about the Romans : " And the fame of the race of my ancestors shall thereafter be exalted to the highest by their descendants who shall with their spears win the foremost crown of glory , obtaining the sceptre and monarchy of earth and sea " ( transl . |
| 25 | Joey used to say to me |
| 26 | As Mama used to say from her spot by the cooker — lass , you ca n't have much fun on an empty tummy . |
| 27 | That is to say that in a real life movie , the director would say to Kevin Costner ‘ Start walking here , Kev , darling , and walk over to the chair . |
| 28 | Mama would say of those evenings , ‘ Something I have to do , for your Papa . |
| 29 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
| 30 | And what on earth Papa would say of that banal piece of wisdom she could not imagine — and why was Papa , whom she had parted from in a high old anger , so much in her thoughts these days ? |