Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just lately they find out , say me black , so they 've started bothering me . |
| 2 | When you practice dialogues listen to your language helper say them first . |
| 3 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 4 | Friends say she first became concerned about Charles 's ‘ special friendship ’ with Camilla before their marriage 11 years ago . |
| 5 | In extreme cases , if the dark areas of the artwork are not perfectly opaque ( say you used ink instead of dry transfers or crepe tape ) the UV light could pass through this and excessive exposure will affect the etch-resist varnish under the artwork — and the result can be that the whole of the etch-resist ink will be exposed , so that the foil pattern does not develop . |
| 6 | Oh , I say you poor thing . |
| 7 | Fine or make a big kerfuffle and say you little alright then , well see what happens okay ? |
| 8 | They say we all have our double , and it can be fascinating and sometimes puzzling by chance to see someone on TV , in the paper , or in the street who looks in every sense your mirror image , your stand-in should you ever become a star of stage and film . |
| 9 | Cos if you say , if you talk to her , say we all thought you were coming down on Thursday . |
| 10 | Amen , say we three , and the Monster ? |
| 11 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 13 | It seems to work in here , because er the carpet industry , if you speak , speak to people in different firms , say they all work the same way , it seems to work on a |
| 14 | By pressing on different spots on the foot , practitioners say they free up blocked energy channels , helping the body to heal itself . |
| 15 | Smith and Lady Colin say they both received a copy of the letter in the post from an anonymous source . |
| 16 | The subtitles are superfluous : it 's been on the telly umpteen times and the gestures say it all . |
| 17 | THE pink pout , structured cut and thrusting chest say it all — the Fifties beach belle is back . |
| 18 | As for his dress sense … the photos say it all . |
| 19 | The physicality of their food consumption , decidedly hands-on , and their mutually greedy looks say it all . |
| 20 | As for Jack — two words say it all . |
| 21 | The words of Hansard speak little , but the Division lists say it all : they are padded with payroll . |
| 22 | no , and he was n't er he said see they say it all the time I said well of course they do , it 's the phraseology you 're using |
| 23 | Figures say it all ! |
| 24 | Say it again say it all again cut . |
| 25 | read the lists down and across yourself without hearing the language helper say it first . |
| 26 | First I kicked the chair legs when serving , then I must not use scenty hairdressing , do n't say good morning unless they say it first . |
| 27 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 28 | Whatever it is , they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness . |
| 29 | And say it other people . |
| 30 | Alan Moore , one of the new generation , has a word for viewers , readers and comic writers : ‘ Comics may be one of the only untainted sources of information available to a readership ; so it becomes vital that no matter what you say , say it well , say it true , say it clearly . ’ |