Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 2 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 3 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 4 | What I did say was : |
| 5 | What what I did say that Halam had already objected to them going down Station Lane at Edingley which we did . |
| 6 | What I did say is that there are differences in emotional expression between people in different countries , just as much as |
| 7 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 8 | What I do say to the honourable gentleman is his argument is rubbish , bad for the third world , bad for the people of Europe and outside Mr Deputy Speaker I 'd be glad to give him his answer although quite rightly to say I ca n't give it here . |
| 9 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |
| 10 | sounds all like bloody what she does say . |
| 11 | What she did say was , ‘ In future there 's going to be a new rule : you 're going to have your bath before your daddy comes home . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What she did say , though , was enough for me to know that Leith and I wo n't be moving to London . ’ |
| 13 | What you do say is good . |
| 14 | What we do say is that we will give you an opportunity erm er if you like a platform for er for earning good money |
| 15 | But what we do say is if Kim 's got a Wednesday evening and it 's only one , she 's only got one |
| 16 | What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this . |
| 17 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 18 | From the evidence that is available there seems to be some doubt about whether inspection is methodologically sound ( though this is mainly based on what the inspectors fail to say rather than what they do say ) . |
| 19 | But that 's what they do say , that it it sometimes works quicker . |
| 20 | What they do say is that the close coupling and phasing between the coprocessor and main processor makes a dramatic difference to coprocessor intensive applications , such as CAD , and will make a substantial difference to other coprocessor applications . |
| 21 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 22 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 23 | What he did say to the working class is this that the emancipation of working class must be the work of the working class itself . |
| 24 | It remains significant — perhaps all the more significant — for what it does say . |
| 25 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
| 26 | And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |