Example sentences of "you [vb mod] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need n't worry ’ — he was getting happy now , preening his face with his tiny hands — ‘ this conversation we 've had will remain just as confidential as anything you may say to him . |
| 2 | You may say at the end of all this , ‘ Well , where does all this have you ? |
| 3 | You ought to you ought to say to him , I shall ring the police , you come round here any more ! |
| 4 | So you say to the person , you must say to them , I 'm going to put you on call park , do n't worry about it , do n't go away , I wo n't be a minute or two . |
| 5 | Cathbad clicked his tongue , because this was not the sort of thing you should say to soldiers , who were easily cast down and sent into gloom and doom , something you should certainly avoid before going into battle . |
| 6 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 7 | My mother turned round and said , well you should , you tell her , you should say to her look , I 'm next ! |
| 8 | You should say to Steven , ah no I did n't say anything . |
| 9 | You might say to yourself , well is this a very rare occurrence , so that really this branch is making a fuss about nothing , branches do n't have to go through appeals procedures , cos it never happens . |
| 10 | . You might say to yourself , well , how serious is this problem , is it just another er , American thing . |
| 11 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 12 | cos you might say to Mark , oh have a listen to my recording |
| 13 | Taking that on you might say with interviewing , that you know , You 've got to do an interviewing course every three years . |
| 14 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 15 | Whatever else you might say about him , he believed in things and he did what he thought was proper , so it was only right that he 'd been spared and was still out there in the world , somewhere . |
| 16 | You might say like the law courts here , you know , you might say what 're the law courts er as associated in what they , they do ? |
| 17 | For truly , I say to you , if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed , you 'll say to this mountain , move from here to there , and it 'll move , and nothing 'll be impossible . |
| 18 | Because you 'll say to people , did you take all your holiday last year . |
| 19 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |
| 20 | So so you 'd say to yourself , Right |
| 21 | You 'd know when he was breaking loose : you 'd see him walking round t'mill like a cat wi ’ two tails , and you 'd say to yourself — ’ There 's something on . ’ |
| 22 | Similar things like inflexible , okay , let's take another look at some of these words , it 's not so much of this where they 're an asset , , now I would imagine , that some of these as well as being things possibly you 'd say to your , your colleagues when you 're down the pub talking about your staff . |
| 23 | Now because score A has plus one , B has plus one er then it 's negative , negative , slight difference there on the negatives but both negatives and both pos both positive , what you 'd say for those sets of scores are that there 's probably a positive correlation between A and B and if we look at the total of each one of those multiplied together , it comes up with about plus eight . |
| 24 | So , as you 'd say in journalism , you 're a stringer . ’ |
| 25 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 26 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 27 | One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture . |
| 28 | One thing you could say for my daughter , she never let herself go . |
| 29 | Which was more than you could say for her and Ross , Laura thought miserably . |
| 30 | Afshar suggested , " Your Majesty , time will tell , but you could say to him " If you try to sit on two stills , you will fall between . " " |