Example sentences of "say [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter what people say about her character , they have to grudgingly admit that she 's a stunning actress . |
| 2 | It is one of the glories of the Old Testament that its writers are seldom over-careful about what they say about their God . |
| 3 | The continuing separation between those who are interested in what people say about their experiences ( psychoanalysts , psychotherapists , counsellors , phenomenologists , novelists ) and those who pay attention only to what they do ( behaviourist psychologists , human ethologists ) is based upon important choices in research orientation related to conceptions of the social role and implications of the studies themselves . |
| 4 | A more positive view of women readers has been suggested by , for instance , analysing what girls say about their reading ( Frazer 1987 ) , or by examining the ways in which they incorporate its models into their own writing . |
| 5 | The trouble is that the awful things parents say about their children , often repeated , not usually ‘ meant ’ except in the heat of the moment , tend to stick . |
| 6 | Erm I do n't think we need to talk about parents ' rights , I think we need to look much more at the needs of children and I think we need to listen to children , er particularly when there 's conflict , we need to hear what they say about their parents , about what their needs should be . |
| 7 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Father , I know what people say about my Mickey , but as you know yourself , stories get stretched in the telling . |
| 9 | Oh say , say about my fault , I should n't want to pay |
| 10 | say about my fruit salad ? |
| 11 | ‘ What do independent experts say about our 10 extra pages ? ’ asks the advertisement . |
| 12 | And what do the answers to those questions say about your ability to be your company 's next marketing director , finance director or even chief executive ? |
| 13 | Cos these are just say for her teacher . |
| 14 | He says ; not once has he lost his liberty and we say for his own sake and others there must be consideration about whether he should be put in a secure place . |
| 15 | Griffin is right to the extent that we do entertain fantasies of inhabiting other ‘ skins ’ ( David Garnett 's Lady into Fox ( 1932 ) is a good example of the literary genre , although Kafka 's Metamorphosis ( 1961 ) is pre-eminent in casting the shadows of paradox involved in the attempt ) but the failure to achieve this does not in any way put at risk our understanding of what others say of their own or others ' consciousness . |
| 16 | Nor in the case of animals will it undermine what we say of their consciousness , grounded as it is in their contiguity to the human paradigm . |
| 17 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
| 18 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |
| 19 | You know and , as I say with my partner I have n't mentioned it yet , this business about cover |
| 20 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 21 | In parliament it was difficult to adjust to the new situation , whereby the party was supposed to abstain from all criticism of the government but had no say in its decisions . |
| 22 | In any case , as the permanent under-secretary in the Foreign Office philosophically remarked , if the Americans were asked to " underwrite the Empire , they would expect some say in its running " . |
| 23 | In October the girl won a temporary order under the 1989 Children 's Act , which gives youngsters more say in their future , barring her parents from forcing her to return . |
| 24 | The US tort liability system , the firms say in their statement , is out of control . |
| 25 | Women have no say in their marriages : often they are married when still babies , or at least by the age of five in a group ceremonial marriage , for youths , held for them at the close of their bachelor hut initiation period . |
| 26 | Health service employers who mean what they say in their statements about equal opportunities would welcome such a monitoring process . |
| 27 | As Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell say in their translations of the Upanishads ( a collection of verses devoted to Indian mystical knowledge ) , the world view which shaped Sanskrit was holistic . |
| 28 | They have no choice about when to get up , they go to bed early , men and women are not allowed to visit one another 's rooms , chips are forbidden , exercise and healthy diet are mandatory , and students have no say in their assessments or the training programmes designed for them . |
| 29 | ’ As major consumers ’ , WEN say in their campaign , ’ women are in a position of power to influence environmentally damaging manufacturing processes ’ . |
| 30 | As the editors say in their introduction , ‘ the balance of creative power between active creators and active receivers or critical audiences is one of the key themes of this book ’ . |