Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 2 | ‘ Believe me , my dear Shiona , if I could , I 'd much prefer to say something pleasant . ’ |
| 3 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 4 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 5 | Pets , he just wants to say hello , you knock at the door and this Afghan wolfhound is playing in the back there , take it in the kitchen and they say to you he only wants to say hello , that 's right |
| 6 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 7 | Then there 's Helen , who knows everybody and is highly respected to say nothing of Betty , who will praise us up to the skies even before we 've spayed one cat . ’ |
| 8 | I only want to say through the Voice : I am truly grateful to them all , and God bless them all . |
| 9 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if the child writes in there first I say , I concur with what so and so has said , Well done or something like that . |
| 11 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 12 | I only came to say good-bye and thank you for a lovely day . ’ |
| 13 | If his growing army of fans are only writing to say they like Merton 's own TV series , then they are either shy or lying . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Major is not suddenly going to say let's have a referendum , ’ said one Scottish Tory source . |
| 15 | If there 's anything I can do , you 've only got to say the word . |
| 16 | We 've not only got to say to the government , that you 're not coping you 've got to say , if you 're a mother , a worker and a wife , you 've got to say to your husband , look , I 'm not coping . |
| 17 | ‘ If ever you do n't want me to come with you somewhere , Bob , you 've only got to say . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't want my help , you 've only got to say . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was only going to say , there 'd be no point in blackmailing him . |
| 20 | I 'm only going to say it once . |
| 21 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 22 | I was only going to say Chairman I wish people would n't band the figures around the council chamber which nobody has seen before therefore ca n't assess . |
| 23 | I was merely going to say that it is possible to alter the past to such an extent that subsequent events are incompatible with it . |
| 24 | But this man here is obviously going to say he 's seen no cruelty , he h obviously has n't seen the circus madness video that w was released by I A W A and Animals Defenders this year , where there is an absolutely horrendous scene of a llama being beaten around the head and chest . |
| 25 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 26 | Right , what 's , perhaps I should have started with , with the contrasting picture in which , at the level of intellect , erm , there would be no individual forms , but only forms say for human beings . |
| 27 | Because the , the market becomes much smaller , right , there is , world trade in agricultural products has fallen relatively speaking , right , as a result , that market is going to be very , very volatile , it only takes say er , bad harvest in Argentina , or er , Australia , in one country , that does n't have support programmes , to affect the world market substantially , because that one supplier is now relatively large , because most major erm , countries are self , are now self sufficient . |
| 28 | I am all set to say , ‘ It 's me ’ , but nobody answers the phone . |
| 29 | and why , why people suddenly started saying we 've got to go around marking |
| 30 | ‘ I only rang to say that Mildred ca n't . ’ |