Example sentences of "[verb] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 2 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 3 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 4 | this is what you want to say to other people is n't it ? |
| 5 | O K , so , that 's really all I 've got to say about living assurance , of all the , it 's just got to be , a brilliant contract , and if you can afford it , you need it yourself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've said what I 've had to say in private — that 's where it will remain . ’ |
| 7 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 8 | I am afraid this is about as much as I am going to say about magnetic materials apart from a very brief discussion of some pseudomagnetic materials ( superconductors ) in Sections 3.15 and 3.16 . |
| 9 | ‘ What are we going to say to old Plumpton ? |
| 10 | I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro . |
| 11 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 12 | Right , what 's , perhaps I should have started with , with the contrasting picture in which , at the level of intellect , erm , there would be no individual forms , but only forms say for human beings . |
| 13 | France was a side torn apart between Trillo 's desire to make risk a factor in the gameplan and Dubroca who , as the spiritual heir to Fouroux , had favoured the safety-first approach , no matter what he may have said in public . |
| 14 | You may not wish to say in open session . |
| 15 | ‘ Too long , ’ Bicker said with quiet savagery , burying his eyes in the fire . |
| 16 | After a moment , she managed to say through tight lips : ‘ Come out and visit us on Sunday . ’ |
| 17 | Castro is reported to have said in private that ‘ we shall not make the same mistake twice ; we shall not break with the Russians after having broken with the Americans ’ ( Suárez : 1967 , p. 175 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ It is too good to be true ’ , he is reported to have said in astonished delight , for he now had in Paris the new French Sixth Army , and Kluck , by his change of direction , would shortly expose his right flank and rear to shattering attack from the west . |
| 19 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 20 | She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence , about adolescents harbouring poltergeists . |
| 21 | Chesarynth remembered what the old witch had said about young girls . |
| 22 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 23 | He told them what Barbara Coleman had said about Sabine Jourdain and Durance . |
| 24 | ‘ You little slut ! ’ he had said through clenched teeth , his face ugly with fury — and some other emotion she had not then recognized . |
| 25 | The reality is that you 've said to British Rail , you can bid for those franchises that nobody else wants |
| 26 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 27 | ‘ From what you 've said about Airborne , he 's also into some dodgy share dealings . |
| 28 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
| 29 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 30 | She would see what he had to say as personal criticism and that was something which in his experience few women could take . |