Example sentences of "say [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gorbachev 's role is unclear : Hans Klein , the West German government spokesman , would say only that Mr Kohl 's last telephone message to the Soviet leader was on Friday , with a reply on Sunday . |
| 2 | The spokesman would say only that Mr Maxwell was co-operative in matters relating to the ‘ trading companies ’ . |
| 3 | No one can really say just where Palma Nova stops and Magalluf begins , they just sort of merge into one another and the sandy beach runs the length of both resorts . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you have a lovely house ! ’ she would say wistfully and Annabel Hogan would smile , pleased , and congratulate herself on having brought these two together . |
| 5 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 6 | I mean , wages , benefits from the welfare state — the cost of reproducing labour power , which is really what the wages for housework argument turns on , this cost is covered in a variety of ways — not adequately , that 's true and working class women are most vulnerable , but I do n't think we can say simply that housework , childcare is given free , is not paid for at all . |
| 7 | I should say here that O was a grown man , a strong and handsome man . |
| 8 | Well can I say then that Iris will keep a diary |
| 9 | Did n't Edith say then that Ann came across for Christmas ? |
| 10 | Cos I did say earlier that universities are behind in terms of this momegliture and so is industry . |
| 11 | It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really . |
| 12 | I would say too that Lillie was a pioneer in using visual aids to get his point over , as Greenpeace and others now do so effectively with video cameras . |