Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not pretend to know what the ethics committee would say about that . |
| 2 | You can imagine what " support " you would get , and what the coach would say to such a programme . |
| 3 | And indeed as Lady Bracknell would say for ready money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mama would say of those evenings , ‘ Something I have to do , for your Papa . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | She knew what Papa would say to that . |
| 8 | None of the team will say at this stage which of the pumps appears best , but the Malawi pump is certainly popular . |
| 9 | This is what any innocent hostess would say in those circumstances : Lady Macbeth knows exactly how things ought to look ( scheinheilig , as one says in German ) . |
| 10 | Then the king will say to those on his right hand , ‘ You have my Father 's blessing ; come , enter and possess the kingdom that has been ready for you since the world was made . |
| 11 | Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits , and how little she might mean it ? |
| 12 | ‘ She 's very beautiful , ’ was all that McAllister could say to that . |
| 13 | And if Elinor 's mother should break down he would sob operatically and people would say to each other , as he stood by the flowers afterwards , ‘ My , my . |
| 14 | Twenty-five years later Zuwaya would say with some pride ‘ I 'm a free Zuwayi ’ implying ‘ of the old kind ’ . |
| 15 | She straightened her back and a small smile began to spread over her lips as she said , ‘ I wonder what Mrs Funnell will say to this ? |
| 16 | ‘ That is what Umbarak would say to Zayed . |
| 17 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 18 | ‘ This past month we 've suffered eleven raids , and still no man can say for sure who the reivers are . |
| 19 | ‘ It was n't me , ’ a man can say after some foul abomination such as hitting his wife or putting his penis in a prostitute 's dribbling mouth , ‘ It was n't really me . |
| 20 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |