Example sentences of "say [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 2 | What I say only have to look . |
| 3 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 4 | on top of the telly , and say just put your foot on here a minute , now , they look quite thin now , but , that 's what I was looking at , yeah , cos her feet are fat , yeah , but they , that do like that do n't they ? |
| 5 | Now in the in the first year of business , you 'd be allowed capital allowances on that which is m may well er varies i in the proportion , but just say just say it 's er ten percent , five hundred pounds , actually will you make that four hundred . |
| 6 | Well just say just say no , cos I mean she ca n't like fucking rule your life . |
| 7 | Well they say always start on A do n't they ? |
| 8 | and say like say it takes absolutely ages to clean the dishes and pots you know , but like you say it was erm chili con carne , erm tuna and celery pie , what else was there on ? |
| 9 | You say hopefully bang against the back wall , why 's that ? |
| 10 | Investors say both have improved their services since they started to face serious competition . |
| 11 | Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery ; a small amount of cash was taken from the till . |
| 12 | Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery ; a small amount of cash was taken from the till . |
| 13 | It really annoys me , and every now and again I sit him down and say now look you , oh Henry , and he adores , the actual , personally my father adores my mother and the sun has always shone out , she 's the only person in the world for him |
| 14 | Or persuade or influence , or as I say even vote with their pocket books . |
| 15 | We say well pick up a bit of experience here |
| 16 | and I say well come on I said you can you can smile you know . |
| 17 | work all year and if you can afford it , ca n't have a holiday in the year , say well come on kids your a bit older now |
| 18 | But , when Nigel comes next year he 'll bring Eileen and I think that under circumstances I think if we say well come for about quarter to two . |
| 19 | well I 'm a bit puzzled why , why you want to know all this and you think because I have n't given , given a good benefit that 's why a good temporary benefit , that 's why I 'm puzzled , say well let me just take you back to why I 'm h why I 'm here , let me get out of our meeting you 're gon na find this extremely valuable , perhaps for the first half we will spend time looking at your financial put you on the path to achieve financial . |
| 20 | If on top of that you say well let us have some independent people to some others who were elected councillors will find that they are not also on the police authority and that causes problems . |
| 21 | But whereas say something that happens say Well say take for example where I live in . |
| 22 | and say well think of the conductance , do n't think of it as resisting and stopping the water , how much can it get along and get through ? |
| 23 | As I say I do n't want to promise you something and and then and then at the end you say well hang on we did n't look at that because that 's not within the agenda of of these two days . |
| 24 | and say well hang on a second , and what do you do with objections ? |
| 25 | and I think it 's perhaps important to start with that we go with something that 's a little bit open-ended that we can review in a years time er , perhaps a little bit later and say well look we have shown that we can do it valuably er the proof is in the pudding , it now beholds everybody to do it this way . |
| 26 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 27 | So one of the things about qualifying er the surgery when you walk into them and say well look you know about the hundred pound per full page |
| 28 | You say well look I 'm gon na approach this guy what sort of business are you gon na put his way or can you put his way . |
| 29 | and then say well look the reason why I 'm here is this |
| 30 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |