Example sentences of "and say that " in BNC.

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31 I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected .
32 Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else .
33 Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album .
34 It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance .
35 We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 .
36 ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’
37 Ring the bell and say that you would like to adopt an old person .
38 Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble .
39 I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle ; I would go one step further and say that it is a literal example of this process .
40 There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money .
41 The letter should explain that you have the right qualifications , and say that you are willing to learn those you do n't have : you may be a competent typist , for example , but need a few hours to learn how to use a word processor .
42 No good asking Olga Stych ; she 'd just stick her nose in the air and say that Boyd was doing very well .
43 Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen .
44 And say that we do n't want anyone to get hurt .
45 I must hold my hand up and say that their goal was down to me .
46 Can anyone put their hand on their heart and say that they are looking forward to very old age ?
47 Mothers may vehemently oppose this view and say that their child is clean at age 1 year but usually they mean that their child has regular bowel habits .
48 Can anyone really put their hand on their heart and say that there will be no violent backdrop to the 1995 World Cup ?
49 Some are inclined to shrug their shoulders and say that Thailand , like an unruly adolescent , is just ‘ going through a phase ’ .
50 However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) .
51 HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind .
52 I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success .
53 We may adopt another Maoist metaphor and say that the next revolution will be like a straw sandal made in his home province of Hunan .
54 If this is likely to take time , make your first application quickly , and say that the value you have given has yet to be confirmed and may be changed later .
55 Thus Notation 2.2.3 Let R be a binary relation on a set A. If unc we write unc and say that a1 is related to a2 under ( or by ) R. Otherwise we write unc and speak accordingly .
56 It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece .
57 Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you and your team are providing a first-class service to them ?
58 Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday .
59 The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored .
60 Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food .
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