Example sentences of "you [vb mod] say [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was just er you may say destiny brought me here which I never wanted to come to this place . |
| 2 | She was looking at the the question of self-scripture , and she has as a a criteria for differentiation or some , or as you might say boundary marks , it 's a question of boundaries between different groups . |
| 3 | So you might say sex was a bit thin in this two-thirds of the room . |
| 4 | You might say reality is stranger than fiction . |
| 5 | You might say ham put down the Spanish ham . |
| 6 | at it for responsibility and financial reasons and if you log down every bit that you spent doing admin assistant and E O then you 'd say stuff this for a game of soldiers but you do n't |
| 7 | Substitution of I for E so instead of forget you know I for E So instead of saying forget you 'd say forgit . |
| 8 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 9 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 10 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 11 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 12 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 13 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 14 | If you have a highly cultured heron than any of Papagena 's numbers from the Magic Flute will see it off before you can say Gin Rin Kohaku . |
| 15 | Well , I do n't bloody know , alright if you can say middle , you mean middle . |
| 16 | You can say Argol ca n't you ? |
| 17 | If the result of your test is positive , you can say goodbye to your competitive career . |
| 18 | Lama oh you can say marmalade ! |
| 19 | You can say pat pit pot put if you put a a vowel in . |
| 20 | Not like the old one — bottle of pink medicine and out through the door before you can say knife … ’ |
| 21 | He soon regains the old knack — and before you can say angel-dust , he 's flying and sword-fighting like never before . |
| 22 | ‘ But when you sell enough records you can say f— off , f— off ! |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll have this wood chopped down for Beanos as soon as you can say market forces . ’ |
| 24 | You can say religion forbids us to show our legs . |
| 25 | Yeah that one 's but I mean th if they say Name one radioactive metal , in nuclear power stations , then okay you can say radium er uranium or plutonium , but if they want a naturally occurring one then you 're not gon na get any marks for saying plutonium . |