Example sentences of "they say [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have time to digest the unexpected worm , as they say about early birds ! |
| 2 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |
| 3 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 4 | ‘ I do what I have to do , as they say in Western films , ’ he declaimed , ogling my ear . |
| 5 | The icing on the scrummy cake is the brilliant pre-match options menu , offering the selection of your squad , any of the eight national teams , a full tournament , lots of control options , two-player games and , as they say in cruddy Christmas album adverts , much much more ! |
| 6 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |