Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they , it basically says , there 's erm , replenish , or rotate stock , and they sort of tick or sign to say that they 've done it . |
| 2 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 3 | Paisley had to be in Ulster that day , but Kevin McNamara , MP for Kingston-upon-Hull , realised that the Black issue was being avoided and intervened to say that MPs were concerned about the serious allegations which had been made . |
| 4 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 5 | He remained a student throughout his life , gave stipends to foreign scholars such as Grotius and Casaubon , and used to say that anyone who disturbed him before noon was no true scholar . |
| 6 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 7 | I have just read the letter in the September issue of Todays Horse and have to say that I agree with the comments of Lisa Robillard on the point of using ‘ he ’ instead of ‘ she ’ . |
| 8 | I do not remember hearing the Cecilian Ode in this form before , and have to say that some of its sparkle goes with , first , the filling out of the music 's original crystal-clear textures , and second , the breaking of the marvellous marriage between Dryden 's words and Handel 's poetic setting ( for the work is , of course , done here in ‘ authentic ’ German ) . |
| 9 | I can find no significant problems with it , and have to say that , after you 've looked at Excel 4 , other spreadsheets begin to look quite primitive . |
| 10 | Still Daalny lingered , as if minded to say or ask something more , her thin oval face sharply alert and her eyes half-veiled but very bright within the long dark lashes . |
| 11 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 12 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 13 | Pausanias starts his account with the figure of Zeus , then speaks of others to left and right of him , but omits to say whether he means Zeus 's proper right and left or the spectator 's ; and there is no general agreement about the correct disposition of the figures . |
| 14 | The court should not substitute its own decision for that of the parent but had to say whether the parents ' decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |