Example sentences of "for say [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 2 | Check the section on Reading effectively , and also remember the idea of having a debate on a chosen topic for say half an hour once a week so that you can use your voice and express your ideas and opinions . |
| 3 | But what might the reasons be for saying such a thing ? |
| 4 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 5 | A person who could do only that , and did so without any other considerations , would be , as the sociolinguist Dell Hymes ( 1971 [ 1972:277 ] ) has said , ‘ likely to be institutionalised ’ for saying all kinds of inappropriate , irrelevant , and uninteresting things . |
| 6 | His wanting the wedding-dress was an excuse for saying all the things he 'd said . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ Thank you for saying that . |
| 8 | And the cruncher for dealing with excessive criticism or praise : ‘ Thank you for saying that . ’ |
| 9 | Now , there is a basic constitutional principle , embodied in the Bill of Rights of 1688/9 , that the levying of taxes must be authorized by statute , and so there is an argument for saying that non-statutory rules made by the Revenue which effectively determine a taxpayer 's liability to tax are ‘ unconstitutional ’ . |
| 10 | Thank you very much indeed for saying that . |
| 11 | She wanted to hit him for saying that to her . |
| 12 | You have n't got any reason for saying that . ’ |
| 13 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 14 | My authority for saying that is the Reader in Sociology at Queen 's University , Robert Cormack , some of whose latest findings have been discussed in this newspaper by Claire McGahan this week . |
| 15 | There is a case for saying that chairman of selectors , Ted Dexter , and Gooch have both had their day and that new management should take over . |
| 16 | I said that will teach her to what for for saying that ! |
| 17 | Later Mr Unsworth said that the princess told him : ‘ Thank you very much , Ted , for saying those things . ’ |
| 18 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 19 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 20 | May Jupiter forgive me for saying this Buddy - but I do think his head would go nice on your mantelpiece . |
| 21 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 22 | They 've talked about the way that employers , that employers treat workers , and do you know what that resolution does , because it 's printed in the preliminary agenda and I make no apologies for saying this . |
| 23 | I would have thought they would be hi hiding under the bed for saying this . |
| 24 | John Hall wo n't thank me for saying this but the MetroCentre falls into this category . |
| 25 | Shearer says : ‘ I 'll probably get slayed for saying this , but I think we can attract misfortune to ourselves . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry my Lord for saying this erm , erm I 'm , I 'm , well I am really gon na ask for legal fees on this |