Example sentences of "[conj] to say [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |
| 2 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 3 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 4 | Mr Patten did not respond except to say he was concerned about the future well being of the territory and he was ready to start talks at any time . |
| 5 | DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) . |
| 6 | I wo n't go on about the England game — you know what happened — except to say it was crap being there . |
| 7 | I wo n't bother with the details of the journey to China — except to say it was a bit of an ordeal , as the British Caledonian airplane broke down at Karachi ( an axle broke on landing ) , and so we were kept endlessly waiting around . |
| 8 | She shrugged , not dismissively but as if to say she was helpless . |
| 9 | THE 1987 heavyweight fight betwen Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno at Spurs was my first big promotion and to say I was wet behind the ears is an insult to water . |
| 10 | I knew that I was being considered for the MBE , to be announced in the next Queen 's Birthday Honours , and to say I was stunned at the thought was an understatement . |
| 11 | But to say it was superseded by the latter in the seventeenth century is not entirely true . |
| 12 | Charles was n't sure whether to say he was sorry or not . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |