Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go on just to say , to address one other subject and that 's traffic calming , traffic calming is a very important aspect in our rural areas and indeed in our towns . |
| 2 | Dyson lingered , and he and Lewis found still more to say to one another , strolling up and down the cloister of New Buildings . |
| 3 | As the mysterious man following Blackeyes , Nigel Planer speaks at last , though he has damn all to say . |
| 4 | And sort of came away much to say thought it was a joke , like |
| 5 | We have got not merely to say this , but to believe it and put our belief into practice . |
| 6 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 7 | And at the end of the Easter break I brought the family back from holiday , rescued the uniforms from the dry cleaners and rang the friend who shares the school pick up just to say : ‘ All set for tomorrow ? ’ |
| 8 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 9 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 10 | Of our neighbours I saw most of Robin McEwen , a man with a brilliant , mercurial mind , the most generous of hosts and companionable of men yet always hopelessly impractical : sometimes he would blow in unexpectedly to say hello , Kind Dog hat on head , green scarf billowing in the breeze , knees encased in worn plus-fours , always eager to engage in debate while taking a nip of Laphroaig against the cold . |
| 11 | ‘ She called just now to say someone has collapsed outside the medical centre . ’ |
| 12 | Tremayne grunted and bore the document away , coming back presently to say I should stop working and go with him to Newbury races , if I did n't mind . |
| 13 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
| 14 | She 'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would , come hell or high water . |
| 15 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 16 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 17 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 18 | I 'll pop in tomorrow to say goodbye on my way to the airport . ’ |