Example sentences of "say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you hear what I 'm sayin' to you ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , as I 'm always sayin' to me old Dutch , what the eyes do n't see the 'eart do n't grieve about , and a bloke 's got to make a livin' some'ow . |
| 3 | Always say to yourself , ‘ I will select a field just in case I do n't find lift . ’ |
| 4 | This is largely a matter of forming the habit of noting the wind from smoke or some other indication and of orientating yourself relative to the sun or an obvious feature such as a coast line , i.e. remember something along the lines of ‘ Into wind is into sun ’ , or say to yourself , ‘ I must land with the sun over my left shoulder ’ , etc . |
| 5 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 6 | AND MUCH MORE His Master 's Voice says NO What other shops say to dogs PUPPY OF ALL BATTLES We help bring Des back from the Gulf |
| 7 | ‘ I say to any pensioner in this hall or watching on the television , you have personally been robbed of over £2,000 . |
| 8 | He says that ‘ when children have limited communication and language skills , you often need to reinforce what you say to them in a physical form . |
| 9 | Sometimes I stop a total stranger in the street And say to him : Let's do that one more time , But this time walk past slower , with a limp , Or smiling to yourself , as one gone mad . |
| 10 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you do n't mind what you say to your father , you might remember he 's also a detective chief inspector . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had numerous prison governors say to me , Yes , Conlon , we know you 're innocent , but there 's nothing we can do about it . |
| 13 | I always take at face value what they say to me . |
| 14 | If it is the woman 's , it comes under the husband 's control , in spite of anything you say to the contrary . ’ |
| 15 | He is able to take the weakness of our present experience and say to our hearts : ‘ Look , do n't despise yourself . |
| 16 | Suppose I am a very heavy smoker and I am anxious to break the habit , and you say to me : ‘ What a wonderful man is the Bishop of Bristol ; he never smoked a cigarette in his life . |
| 17 | Next time you catch yourself thinking uncharitably of another , criticizing another , say to yourself : ‘ Reconciliation — what does that have to say to my relationship with that person ? ’ |
| 18 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 19 | I say to him , if he did more gardening , more real gardening , more digging , he would keep more lissom . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Take courage , ’ they say to one another , ‘ fight , ’ and ‘ be men . ’ |
| 22 | I say to you , coming straight from the Cabinet councils , the thing is not finished . |
| 23 | She did n't take five years out and say to herself , ‘ I 'm really going to learn music . ’ |
| 24 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he cries in one of his disarming bursts of candour , ‘ You turn on the radio and say to yourself ‘ Who wrote this junk ? ’ . |
| 26 | We can even see what many horses say to their owners . |
| 27 | You see beautiful girls all the time , and you say to yourself , that 's not real , that 's to do with lighting , make-up , good photography . |
| 28 | A lot of my friends say to me , ‘ Yasmin , I bet you 're dying to cut your hair ’ , or ‘ Would n't you like to perm it ? ’ but it 's not true , I would n't . |
| 29 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 30 | I say to the British people : after all they have done , they simply do n't deserve to be re-elected . ’ |