Example sentences of "[det] say [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 2 | Stockbrokers W I Carr are aiming the Helmsman Self-Managed Personal Pension at controlling directors , partners , self-employed and senior executives who want some say in the control of their investments . |
| 3 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 4 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 5 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 6 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 7 | I will have much more to say about the biochemistry of these events in the context of my own experiments in the next chapter ; I do n't want to get into great detail here but instead would emphasize that Kandel explains the reflex and its habituation and sensitization by a series of reductions . |
| 8 | However , there is more to say on the matter of questioning . |
| 9 | As it happened , I had a word or two more to say on the topic of — as you put it yourself — the glories of nature . |
| 10 | I did n't get any say in the matter of how big or which brand it was , but the barmaid smiled sweetly and said ‘ Merci ’ when I paid her , because they all pretend to be French even if they are n't . |
| 11 | The agreement , which the Prime Minister has accepted , will exclude Britain from any say in the appointment of the president , vice-president and executive board of the ECB . |
| 12 | But no one from Northern Ireland can have any say in the formulation of Labour Party policy . |
| 13 | While on the other hand , it attacked the idea that ‘ the irregular , half-informed , capricious voice of popular favouritism ’ should have any say in the outcome of the competition . |
| 14 | Pareto does not consider politics or government as subjects separate from sociology , and he has little to say about the concept of power as such . |