Example sentences of "say [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If quick decisions are needed , say during the sales , then at least work out the approximate size of the spaces you have in mind and look out for pieces of furniture that will best fit into them .
2 Cigarettes were passed to Mr Say during the day .
3 Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ?
4 He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil .
5 So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ?
6 What does this document say about the issues at hand ?
7 And If what you say about the state of his finances is true then he 'd have every reason for faking his death to escape the music .
8 Listen to what Gabe Mirkin and Martshall Hoffmann in The Sportsmedicine Book say about the athlete 's heart :
9 ‘ And I do n't care what people say about the age difference .
10 What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ?
11 The things people say about the book business .
12 The second question was : If everything is determined by some fundamental theory , then what we say about the theory is also determined by the theory — and why should it be determined to be correct , rather than just plain wrong or irrelevant ?
13 ‘ I 've wondered about the implications of the placing of the head in the font , ’ Theodora said thoughtfully , ‘ and what you say about the possibility of its being a symbolic gesture .
14 Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them .
15 The Minister is attempting to paint a comprehensive picture of what those in industry and commerce in Northern Ireland say about the privatisation , but what about the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council ?
16 Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common .
17 Erm , can I imagine erm two abstracted intellects , each of them doing geometrical proofs and say about the two of them is they go through the group of er the infinity of prime numbers , each of them is working that through .
18 What about , the ones where , the situation is say about the people freezing , and they do nothing ?
19 Do you know what they say about the Fontana di Trevi ? ’
20 As you say about the interlock .
21 Did you hear my teacher say about the book ?
22 You say about the Moat House being expensive , well it might be expensive to you or I as an individual , but when you 're negotiating conference rates in the area it is actually cheap and very suitable .
23 The qualitative approach may be acceptable for small systems , but for more substantial enterprises it would be surprising if the development of more disciplined and rigorous approaches , say through the wider use of mathematics , would not be more successful and lead to new types of opportunity .
24 ‘ You see , ’ I overheard her say through the half-closed door , ‘ I told you he could be useful . ’
25 This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system .
26 A group of villagers had spent the evening in the Red Lion , and after closing time Young did the run in the nude , some reports say as the result of a bet .
27 The head , in promoting the discussion and holding the ‘ overview ’ of developments across the school as a whole , will be aware that there are many different possible patterns , ranging from a simple ‘ lesson-a-week ’ pattern to a more complex planned programme which might ( for example ) integrate music into a thematic project or topic , and allow for an ‘ intensification period ’ at the end of term ( say for the children to build up to a performance ) .
28 ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China .
29 Say for the you know the the implements on the farm that they have
30 Now if our estimates , say for the marginal to consume or the incoming elasticity of demand , right if our estimates are based on a regression in which the real or the underlying marginal propensity to consume or income elasticity demand is varying from plus four to minus two , you know , is our point test generate from , from regression analysis they are going to be completely meaningless .
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