Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll say one other thing before you go . |
| 2 | Some might say that typical annual percentage rates of around 24 per cent are crippling . |
| 3 | Only a man could say such cruel things , ’ and then , belatedly , remembering her manners , which her mama had so often told her she was always forgetting , ‘ But I must thank you for taking me in . |
| 4 | Nobody , it seemed , could say one good word about the wanted man . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the analyst could say these different sentences to a group of listeners and ask them all to write down what attitudes they thought were being expressed ; however , we have a vast range of adjectives available for labelling attitudes and the members of the group would probably produce a very large number of such adjectives , leaving the analyst with the problem of deciding whether pairs such as ‘ pompous ’ and ‘ stuck-up ’ , or ‘ obsequious ’ and ‘ sycophantic ’ were synonyms or represented different attitudes . |
| 6 | The house scene is dead , we 're told by the older club cognoscenti ; in fact ‘ before you could say Happy Flowered Roses , it was all over ’ ( NME ) . |
| 7 | That 's the last thing the skipper 'd say big red lights , no smoking . |
| 8 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
| 9 | Now let's say that urban wages , right are up here and that it 's going to take , it 's like this individual , this amount of time to get er a job at that , at that wage , let's say that 's the expected wage , of the urban area , okay . |
| 10 | Let's , let's say different structural formulae . |
| 11 | I can say that reasonable safely and I can apologize to those people who put their hands up , by saying that I too am c am an accountant by background , and it 's fairly brave of me to admit that in front of so many I T people . |
| 12 | In summary , we can say that public law rules and principles ( including the rules of judicial review ) ought to apply to the exercise ( or non-exercise ) of public functions ; and that public functions are functions which ought to be subject to public law controls . |
| 13 | We can say that sexual delight , or the lack of it , is the direct heir of infancy . |
| 14 | You can say old Friesian you . |