Example sentences of "say [prep] [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore anything you say about God is meaningless . |
| 2 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 3 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 4 | Was it because of what Robert had said about Giles being jealous ? |
| 5 | Practically everything that I have said about borrowing is applicable to cash , in reverse . |
| 6 | I remembered what Lili had said about brides being gift-wrapped , and thought of them in their boxes . |
| 7 | Very little of what 's said in conversation is direct and meaningful . |
| 8 | I was scared because if what Quigley had said to Pikey was true and he really did n't know Mr Marr , how come he had access to his full name and date of birth ? |
| 9 | You just knew that what he was saying about Quigley was true . |
| 10 | You heard what Giles said about vets being available all day and night . ’ |
| 11 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |