Example sentences of "say to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 2 | If it is the woman 's , it comes under the husband 's control , in spite of anything you say to the contrary . ’ |
| 3 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 4 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 5 | I say to the British people : after all they have done , they simply do n't deserve to be re-elected . ’ |
| 6 | No matter what the advertisements say to the contrary , garlic is always perceptible on the breath , even when it is taken in capsule form . |
| 7 | Then say to the children ‘ Would anyone like to point to a row across ? ’ |
| 8 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 9 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 10 | Pick up two plates and say to the person ‘ you must copy my exact gestures ’ and all the time look you in the eyes . |
| 11 | TACKLING your opponent very hard and then lifting him up with your hands under his armpits and pulling his hairs until he is screaming blue murder — and you say to the referee ‘ Well , I 'm only trying to help him ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She 's almost new , ’ I say to the customer . |
| 13 | We say to the parrot , ‘ Where 's Polly going , then ’ and the parrot responds , ‘ Going to the bank ’ . |
| 14 | However there are , of course , some very good coroners who say to the inspector at the outset , ‘ You go ahead and do your job of investigating the cause of the accident and I will carry out my formal inquiry into the cause of death , and in those areas where our activities tend to overlap let us co-operate together but equally let us not interfere with each other in respect of those matters in which we are not qualified to make judgements . ’ |
| 15 | Try to relate the interim end-result of everything you do , decide or say to the overall profitable contribution expected of you at the year 's end . |
| 16 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 17 | In indee indeed I do , because if the if I say to the Inspector that erm if he feels there is a need to identify additional areas for residential development near to York in the short term , then I need to tell him that there are no overriding constraints to the development of these sites . |
| 18 | And you 're , Ooh stabilizers. you say to the other kids , Ooh you do n't need stabilizers . |
| 19 | When later attending the funeral of her ten-year-old nephew , she overheard the officiating clergyman say to the child 's mother , ‘ Now you must n't cry ’ . |
| 20 | One day he heard Rain Cloud say to the drops of water , ‘ Be quiet , stop quarrelling . |
| 21 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 22 | And erm , this is why I say to the Co-op now er they know my feelings because my husband had only got erm he had er trans works transport which when he retired erm he , he , said well what are we going to do ? |
| 23 | If an opponent kicks , say to the groin area , the defender steps forward , accelerating from the rear foot , which then becomes the leading foot . |
| 24 | Charles heard Lesley-Jane Decker say to the star . |
| 25 | She had a particularly fine line in funeral cards , ’ he overheard the tall fat soutane say to the small fat soutane as he wandered by . |
| 26 | They usually say to the old love about the new , ‘ I love you but am in love with her , ’ meaning that their nature is divided : their protective and uxorious souls reach out for the old love : their sexuality towards the new . |
| 27 | However , I say to the hon. Lady and to the alleged author of that statement that , frankly , I disagree . |
| 28 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 29 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 30 | I say to the hon. Gentleman , who is an Opposition Front Bench spokesman , that he must withdraw that comment . |