Example sentences of "say [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 32 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 33 | Many of us look forward to that festive season and yet say after the event , ‘ I am glad that is over . ’ |
| 34 | so erm , and it said to me , erm , say after the beep , and I did n't understand quite where the beep was , right . |
| 35 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 36 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 37 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 38 | Moreover , as the guide-books say of the guanaco , ‘ when annoyed , they spit . ’ |
| 39 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 40 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 41 | I heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) say of the poll tax that it was the most misconceived legislation ever . |
| 42 | What does Peter Damian himself say of the Pope 's illness ? |
| 43 | Police say against the wrong victim , the stun gun could be deadly . |
| 44 | And how often do we , when faced with great masterpieces , say with the Apostle , ‘ I believe , Lord help my unbelief ’ and express to others an ecstasy which we do not actually feel ? |
| 45 | She 'll go and talk to people , sort things out for herself , say with the Social or something . |
| 46 | The staying power having endurance again you say with the feeling of the mind as well as the , the body . |
| 47 | With His Spirit we are enabled to praise God and say with the heavenly host , ‘ Glory to God in highest heaven ’ . |
| 48 | With his Spirit we are enabled to praise God and say with the heavenly host , ‘ Glory to God in highest heaven . ’ |
| 49 | But experts say with the easing of trade barriers across Europe , the threat of an outbreak grows stronger . |
| 50 | Experts say with the right help , the problems are easy to overcome ; both mother and child benefit . |
| 51 | Erm do you have to be registered say with the council at that address ? |
| 52 | If this file is fully inverted , the resultant file will contain as many records as there are unique descriptor values — say V. The inverted file will be made up of variable-length records . |
| 53 | Now again say before the the great war , the first war |
| 54 | Just just just — if you could just if you could let me know , say within the next fortnight , if you know that is . |
| 55 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 56 | They are , as they say in the films , all he has had to go on . |
| 57 | Two barristers , Alistair Kelman and Owen Keane , say in the latest Information Security Guide that the battle against viruses is being lost because of their ability to reappear in new strains which are immune to known antidotes . |
| 58 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 59 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 60 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |