Example sentences of "[adv] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only said in good fun , nothing malicious . |
| 2 | I was only saying to young Joe earlier , we really should have two on . |
| 3 | His mother obviously adored him and merely said with unconvincing sincerity , ‘ Now , Pino , mind what I say . ’ |
| 4 | But I 'm not clever enough to say for sure , so I keep my mouth shut . |
| 5 | And the less said about big bangs the better . |
| 6 | ‘ It is your duty , girls , to make your new colleagues feel at home here , ’ ' Portia suddenly said in stentorian tones which made Marie-Hélène burst out in giggles . |
| 7 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 8 | Equally , we must only say in general terms what is required of him . |
| 9 | Even with this limitation , however , and even given the fact that the Court in this case says by way of principle little that it has not said in previous cases , one should not underestimate the impact of this new illustration of the Court 's conception of the reach of the Directive in terms of the nature of the activities it covers . |
| 10 | ‘ I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists , ’ he said and began to read . |
| 11 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 12 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 13 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 14 | So far , McDevitt has been questioned and fingerprinted , but the FBI will not say for sure that he is a suspect . |
| 15 | Kaplan can not say for sure , but he hopes that his work ‘ will encourage those conductors who say they are devoted to finding out Mahler 's true interpretive intentions to reassess their own respective approaches ’ . |
| 16 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |
| 17 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 18 | I can not say with absolute certainty that Clare Mallender did not possess a photograph of me , but I can say that there was no reason why she should have done . ’ |
| 19 | This is an inherently vague and flexible concept and its uncertainty causes difficulties for the drafter , who can not say with absolute certainty that any particular clause will be effective . |
| 20 | Danny O'Dell shook his head , and Ruth prayed that her son would not say with devastating candour : ‘ Your cake tastes funny ’ — then breathed again as he said politely , ‘ No more , thank you , Mrs Kleiber . |
| 21 | When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ . |
| 22 | Chairman , I must just say about other organizations , it is approved that they 're going , part of the West Midlands region , is more better off than integral part of the region of Great Britain , or whatever , erm , if they 've got money into their region , they jolly well keep it there , we do n't know where Coventry is . |
| 23 | Trade union members have been given more say via pre-strike ballots , regular elections of their officials , and votes on the unions ' political levy . |
| 24 | The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony . |
| 25 | Indeed , Hobbes says , ‘ I believe that scarce anything can be more absurdly said in natural philosophy , than Aristotle 's Metaphysics . ’ |
| 26 | But this thing we 're always saying about continuous jobs , is n't it . |
| 27 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 28 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 29 | I 've also said to certain factions of the er direct action groups this is the unacceptable face of protest . |
| 30 | Morocco was also said by various sources to have prevented the full deployment of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) personnel and the unloading of equipment for the mission in the port of Agadir . |