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 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I only want to say through the Voice : I am truly grateful to them all , and God bless them all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I only came to say good-bye and thank you for a lovely day . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Major is not suddenly going to say let's have a referendum , ’ said one Scottish Tory source . |
| 14 | If there 's anything I can do , you 've only got to say the word . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If ever you do n't want me to come with you somewhere , Bob , you 've only got to say . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't want my help , you 've only got to say . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was only going to say , there 'd be no point in blackmailing him . |
| 19 | I 'm only going to say it once . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I am all set to say , ‘ It 's me ’ , but nobody answers the phone . |
| 28 | and why , why people suddenly started saying we 've got to go around marking |
| 29 | ‘ I only rang to say that Mildred ca n't . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |