Example sentences of "say [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Father , I know what people say about my Mickey , but as you know yourself , stories get stretched in the telling . |
| 2 | Oh say , say about my fault , I should n't want to pay |
| 3 | say about my fruit salad ? |
| 4 | You know and , as I say with my partner I have n't mentioned it yet , this business about cover |
| 5 | I say in my introduction that I wrote the book partly because I was annoyed that people thought I was only interested in representation . |
| 6 | ‘ I say to my mum , ‘ Mum , I 'm an artist , it 's what artists do . |
| 7 | I often say to my friend — I wish I could retire and live here all the time . ’ |
| 8 | I say to my friends , see the romance in it , the history . |
| 9 | I say to my rock-musician friends : ‘ What could be heavier than 15 people all together , blasting out on those bamboo tubes ? |
| 10 | I say to my hon. Friend — |
| 11 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 12 | And oh , when we do something else , and my hands say to my feet , ha hang on , you can walk as well as they can , let's try it . |
| 13 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 14 | But I just say to my honourable friend I do n't think er compulsion er is the route with that we should follow . |
| 15 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 16 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 17 | what he says behind my back , I mean I tell you someone else who 's two faced , Marcus is two faced . |
| 18 | ‘ You think I do n't have the right to know what 's being said behind my back ? ’ |
| 19 | I looked it up in my handbook of psychiatry and the nearest I could get was ‘ spendthrift behaviour ’ , an expression of hypomania , a serious problem requiring urgent treatment — usually , so it says in my handbook , in a hospital setting , which seems a little extreme — but there you are . |
| 20 | And , when some other retired persons says in my presence ‘ I do n't know how I found time for work ’ , I no longer inwardly cringe with scorn at the well worn cliche as I used to do but instead I enthusiastically and of course sagely nod my head in hearty agreement . |
| 21 | Chairman may I just read the conclusions of a letter from Miss , she says in my , it is my opinion that the local licensing scheme should be endorsed with a review after six months . |
| 22 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |
| 23 | And as I 've said in my evidence , erm we have had engineering drawings erm produced erm to demonstrate . |
| 24 | He has reminded me of what I should have said in my supplementary answer to the hon. Member for Pontypridd ( Dr. Howells ) . |
| 25 | I know it is because that 's what it says on my Amex card . ’ |
| 26 | Wonder what it says on my birth certificate . |
| 27 | And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ? |
| 28 | And of course ’ Oh no ’ , I says to my mother , ’ I not going to out in advertising , I 'm going to join the forces ’ . |
| 29 | Drugs or even more surgery on yet another organ seemed intolerable , and yet I had said to my surgeon , ‘ I am in your hands . ’ |
| 30 | Even when a small boy I had said to my mother : ‘ How can Mary be my auntie ? |