Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] and say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 2 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 3 | King Kenneth I , Part II Confident young Kenneth is being warned by his wife , Queen Emma , that if he gets any more young and confident , people may gang up and say rotten things about him … |
| 4 | ‘ If I enter the room when she 's talking to Carrie or my ma , she 'll simply dry up and say nothing until I 've left . |
| 5 | He went hastily towards the door ; he did n't want Martin to come into the room because then he might break down and say things about his mother that were best left unsaid . |
| 6 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 7 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 8 | ‘ Promise you 'll look in and say hello when you have time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well Denis , you 'd better hurry up and say what you were going to say , ’ said Michael . |
| 10 | I 'll ring up and say that it 's not for me . |
| 11 | People would ring up and say , ‘ Can you get Mrs So-and-So , her baby 's crying and I ca n't stop her . |
| 12 | They would ring up and say , ‘ I 'm your uncle ! ’ |
| 13 | I mean obviously if for example did n't ring up and say I want to sign your name your name tomorrow , I 'd ring her up to see whether she 'd lost her mind or something . |
| 14 | That 's why you need somebody you can ring up and say look , we did this yesterday what am I doing wrong today ? |
| 15 | Shall I ring up and say look John I 've got such a problem ! |
| 16 | I ca n't just ring up and say hi two of my , well a friend and an acquaintance |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 18 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |
| 19 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 20 | But people will look back and say this speech started the process . ’ |
| 21 | But people will look back and say this speech started the process . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They phone and say they 'll accept £20,000 and two months later they 'll ring again and say £18,000 , ’ says Lisa Wilson , partner in Portsmouth-based Accountability Recruitment . |
| 23 | They phone and say they 'll accept £20,000 and two months later they 'll ring again and say £18,000 |
| 24 | People might rush up and say do you do pensions ? |
| 25 | So every century we were in he 'd say ‘ We must drop in and say howdy to Michelangelo or Raphael or Donatello or Leonardo , ’ and he 'd get his picture painted . ’ |
| 26 | Is it possible when we get a new member of , that , not that they 're brought round , which I think must be frightfully intimidating , but that we are told , and therefore we can drop in and say , hello , I 'm so and so , just to say hello . |
| 27 | there is a new , perhaps your staff could drop in and say , hello some time during the week . |
| 28 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 29 | I 'd even go a step further than the physical necessities of being able to see and hear properly and say that the audience must be in the right mood , too , to receive the message . |
| 30 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |