Example sentences of "say [Wh adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proseution , calling on boxes of financial records and documents , say How deceived his investors by channelling their savings into speculative building projects in France . |
| 2 | I normally say how do you feel , but not in your case , |
| 3 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 4 | You say when did that happen ? |
| 5 | Who was say where go on . |
| 6 | and write a letter for Duttons Road , enclose one of the tapes and say where do I go from here ? |
| 7 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 8 | In case mister police-y man decides to stop us and say why have n't you put your seat-y belt on Mrs M Mrs woman ? |
| 9 | They say why do you have to talk about that just now . |
| 10 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 11 | There is an increasing discrimination on my view because of the racism that exists as well as the sexism that exists within our society , and when you say why do n't women do more , the odds against women , particularly black or working class women , are very heavy . |
| 12 | ‘ See if it says how to drive it . ’ |
| 13 | The cause of it is evident enough : such a call on my brains merely ; and of my brains , only that portion which says one and one made three , says how do you do , says I will now dine . |
| 14 | I says how come you deputation , you gave us a time of which to be here , now we said , we turned up a quarter hour beforehand and I says we get a phone call er a an intermission from Councillor that you could n't make it because that your car broke down . |
| 15 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 16 | ( He also says how to make your own , if you can get the jellyfish . ) |
| 17 | I said course I know I said to put some of the carbons from the smoke back into the , into the er wrought iron , he says how did you find that out ? |
| 18 | I says er when was it , he says where do you wan na go from ? |
| 19 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
| 20 | So everyone goes out , buys a gun and when a policeman says why have you got that gun ? |
| 21 | She says why do n't I go out there on a visit . |
| 22 | and I says why do n't you , no , but like |
| 23 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 24 | Oh we 've got , I do n't think we 've got anything on Saturday night , erm , Sunday that we got , Graham , Graham and Janet and for lunch , mum says why do you |
| 25 | Well I says to him , I says if you were that interested I says while I 'm watching I says why do n't you come and see , I says , give us a shake |
| 26 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 27 | Oh Norah from Compton Acres has rung up and says why spoil the arboretum lake ? |
| 28 | He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ? |
| 29 | But you come and try saying how stressed you are in my school and see how long you last . |
| 30 | Aye I heard him saying how do you put up with an arsehole like that ? |