Example sentences of "say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know that they will get their allotted portion of time on the news , whether or not they say or do anything newsworthy . |
| 2 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 3 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 4 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 5 | But , be careful in what you say or do . |
| 6 | Leave go I say or you 'll send us both below to crack our skulls . |
| 7 | Perhaps you repeat what you say or raise your voice . |
| 8 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 9 | But Wright , when warned of the BBC 's footage of his clash with Howells , replied : ‘ I do n't care what the BBC say or show . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ An' remember to be careful what yer say or do , fer yer Granny 's eyes will be on yer in the future . ’ |
| 11 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 12 | The ghosts only attack the adventurers if they say or do something stupid , ignore them , or attack them . |
| 13 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 14 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 15 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 16 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 17 | ‘ And nothing that people say or do can detract from this . |
| 18 | While there is a great deal of merit in this argument , it over-estimates the importance of what individuals say or write on the shaping of ideology . |
| 19 | Do exactly as I say or I 'll cover the mattress with your brains , understand me ? ’ |
| 20 | He does n't care what I say or how I feel — my feelings are meaningless to him — it 's the fact that he 's got me . |
| 21 | It is , surely , a way of giving legitimacy to what we say or do , of providing some kind of backing or security . |
| 22 | But if this is to occur , the teaching relationship must be sufficiently open for students to invest something of themselves in what it is they say or do . |
| 23 | It certainly keeps the teacher on the ball when the pupils are not prepared to accept everything you say or do without questioning . |
| 24 | Everyone will order me around and I will just have to smile and do as they say or they will not look after me when I am an old woman . |
| 25 | Hincmar confirms much of what Dhuoda and Nithard say or imply about the workings of a political system centred on the court , adding details and assigning plausible motives and explanations . |
| 26 | Erm , all quizzes have rules , there 's basically just one rule , that anything I say or do is right , but , and that 's the rules . |
| 27 | five months say or four |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever I say or do , you 'll think badly of me . |
| 29 | ‘ — and fact three , ’ she continued , ‘ is that , whatever you say or do , Peter and I are engaged and will remain engaged until we decide otherwise . ’ |
| 30 | It can hear everything you say or do . |