Example sentences of "say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 2 | Dave , 30 , of Bolton and Allan , 37 , of Liverpool say no-one had complained and are claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 3 | But there are many who say no-one cares . |
| 4 | However after today 's result Morland staff say no-one will ever see them as an easy target . |
| 5 | Her parents say no-one warned them that the drug , Pre , could affect the immune system , making Lexie more susceptible to infection . |
| 6 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 7 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 8 | In this idea Marx and Engels are different from earlier writers such as Adam Smith , or later writers such as Durkheim , who say nothing necessarily inegalitarian in the division of labour . |
| 9 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 10 | RACAL is the company which proves beyond a shadow of doubt that share prices say nothing about what a company is worth . |
| 11 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 12 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 13 | ‘ Say nothing , ’ he said . |
| 14 | So I say nothing to Anna ; instead I quietly join her family for a meal . |
| 15 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ How can you sit there , and say nothing ? ’ |
| 17 | that say nothing . |
| 18 | ‘ I beg you , say nothing of this to anyone . ’ |
| 19 | Our coaches and officials know this too , yet they say nothing . |
| 20 | I say nothing of course . |
| 21 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 22 | But we say nothing ! ' |
| 23 | My advice is ignore the media and say nothing . |
| 24 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 25 | When I am gone say nothing about Dr Carey — speak about Dr Carey 's Saviour . ’ |
| 26 | A fuller account of Dr Carey 's life and work can be found in ‘ Say Nothing About Doctor Carey ’ by Lesley Rowe . |
| 27 | Pale and drawn , his mouth was crease-downward in a Gallic facial representation of ‘ Say nothing , I have a headache and I 'm fed up with bacon and eggs . ’ |
| 28 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 29 | Say nothing to anyone about your wife ; tell your staff she 's with friends , anything convincing . |
| 30 | Contract ‘ And as a chauffeur to top management , you do as you are told and say nothing to anybody . |