Example sentences of "say [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 2 | Say so if you do n't . |
| 3 | One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy . |
| 4 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 5 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 6 | You say away when you mean come here . |
| 7 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 8 | I say usually because it depends on how the card has been marked . |
| 9 | Say quickly that you believe . |
| 10 | Mm I say probably cos they 've been done . |
| 11 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 12 | All I can think of is not wakening the baby , so I say OK and he goes ahead . |
| 13 | If you find yourself changing your mind in the course of an answer , either cross out what you have written and start afresh , or , if there is no time for that , say frankly that you have changed your mind . |
| 14 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 15 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 16 | So he said yes you know , they say well if you want to be paid it means people 'll have to be sacked and all this , well you know ! |
| 17 | I say here that I have been gratefully assisted by the reports and evidence of Mr Peter and Mr David from Hunstead Park in this case . |
| 18 | I say surprisingly because I happen to know Tod is n't squeamish . |
| 19 | There was only allegations and and again I say today that we have not ever found any any proof of any child abuse out there . |
| 20 | I say simply that I support the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough ( Mr. Bell ) rather than other views that have been expressed today . |
| 21 | I often say jokingly that you make a comment to somebody and you find you 're talking to the world export on expert on whatever it is . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we must look after the old folk , ’ he says fatuously and I notice he 's sweating . |
| 23 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 24 | Ralph says basically that they do n't exist , so how could there be one and Simon 's view is that he would know if there was a beast and that they 're just really frightened of each other . |
| 25 | she had said so when they had discussed his teeth . |
| 26 | Penelope Fitzgerald 's prose is as clear as glass , and you realise how much she has n't said only when you stop laughing . |
| 27 | And I says only that he 's gone to back to J J and I says , and that he 'd had enough . |
| 28 | That 's right yeah but I mean they 've got some really , sort of you know , like those things , what have you said tonight that you like , those that jar of stuff , was it something in rum pineapple ? |
| 29 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 30 | There was a pause as if he had said more than he had intended , and , not wanting to probe , she went on , ‘ After drama school I landed a role in a long-running West End farce , as the dumb blonde — because of my looks , I suppose . |