Example sentences of "to say [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we turn to the examination of the extent to which it is true to say of Parliament that it is supreme , it would be as well to make clear what we mean by the statement in the first place . |
| 2 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 3 | Now it does n't mean to say of course that there were only seventeen people in |
| 4 | Anything else to say with publicity that 's erm |
| 5 | After years of medical doubt it is at last safe to say with conviction that an apple a day along with the other fibre-rich foods you will eat on the F-Plan does indeed keep the doctor away . |
| 6 | Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time . |
| 7 | Consequently Hunt earned the thanks of The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal for his innovation , and a few days later in the House , Gladstone was able to say with satisfaction that ‘ for the first time in the history of public edifices in the metropolis ’ , it was possible to state what the real cost would be . |
| 8 | One Kufran shopkeeper stocked as many blank as recorded cassettes in the period before Western recordings became scarce , but it is difficult to say with certainty that his practice reflected sound commercial sense . |
| 9 | When we are dealing with the structure plan for which there is no local plan in force , we have a new problem which is that , owing to the diagrammatic nature of the plans , no one will be able to say with certainty that this does or does not affect the claimant 's property , but that nevertheless , because of that very uncertainty , a wider number of properties may be affected . |
| 10 | As Khrushchev later admitted : ‘ It always sounded good to say in speeches that we could hit a fly at any distance with our missiles . |
| 11 | I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic . |
| 12 | It would be true to say without exaggeration that throughout my mature life , in my quest to transform humanity , I had been in search of Mr White Face , as I thought of him . |
| 13 | She opened her mouth to speak , but could not force the sounds out , could not manage to say to Rosalba that Tommaso had wanted her to give him a different rendezvous , somewhere where they could be alone . |
| 14 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 15 | He goes on to say to Maria that |
| 16 | When Birdie Mac in the sweet shop was unwise enough to say to Benny that those slabs of toffee were doing her no good at all , Eve 's small face flashed in a fury . |
| 17 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 18 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 19 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 20 | ‘ You used to say at Talbothays that I was a pagan , do you remember ? ’ |