Example sentences of "say something [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , he is saying something significant about the way Conservatives are perceived among the fashionable folk ; and this perception is transmitted to sensitive souls who hate to think of themselves as being racist , greedy and materialistic . |
| 2 | The language helper is the expert on his/her language do not rebuke him/her for saying something different from the day before — there must be a reason ( if you were right in your observation ) . |
| 3 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |
| 4 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 5 | Choreography cost money , and no-one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled. because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . |
| 6 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 7 | Analysis and interpretation of structures in a text are useful if you can make something of them — if , for instance , you can say something new on the basis of having identified a rhyme pattern . |
| 8 | ‘ She is a qualified international referee and although the players are entitled to their opinions , I think they might say something different in the morning , ’ Foo said . |