Example sentences of "[verb] say [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd said something to this lady and under normal circumstances he would not a she would n't have said anything |
| 2 | Much of sociological research is , we might say following Garfinkel , trying to " find the animal in the foliage " or , to extend the implication of the metaphor , trying to see if an idea can be made to say something of sociological interest . |
| 3 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 4 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 5 | Erm during the executive erm Mary raised a point from the joint planning team about the erm charter and the remarks made by Dr. on that , would you like to say something on that Mary ? because we want to take some action . |
| 6 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |
| 7 | Melanie decided to say nothing about new pyjamas for herself until the need became really pressing . |
| 8 | Well , Pete decided to say nothing on that subject . |
| 9 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 10 | Nevertheless anyone who wishes to say something in this area must draw on the results of research undertaken by the social sciences and so must accept their autonomy . |
| 11 | Mr , do you want to say anything at this stage ? |
| 12 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
| 13 | But she had said it without much hope . |
| 14 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 15 | ( Please note I have said nothing about female homosexuality since some of the above arguments do not apply , so will lesbians please save themselves a stamp ) . |
| 16 | He 's said it about three times , on last year 's Channel 4 series Paul Merton The Series , and he grafted it , unnaturally , onto his screen persona very much as an anti-catchphrase , as a joke joke . |
| 17 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |