Example sentences of "[adv prt] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your arrival on the scene immediately threatens that freedom , that initiative to , you know , there we have somebody coming along to say , ‘ No , you ca n't do that . ’ |
| 2 | Has there ever been a tennis player that has written in to say ‘ thank you ’ to their fans who have stood by them through all their traumas and their losses , who have stood for hours in the rain or slept out in the streets to get a look at their idols ? |
| 3 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 4 | POINTS of Order could n't help visualising the scene in Number 10 Downing Street a week last Thursday , when the lad from next door burst in to say his piece . |
| 5 | Dee-Dee drifted in and out , offering coffee and company , and Tremayne put his head in to say he was going to Oxford to see his tailor , and to ask if I wanted an opportunity to shop . |
| 6 | But she adds : ‘ As many people as have written saying we should revise them have written in to say that it 's outrageous to think we should even consider revising them … |
| 7 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 8 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 9 | On another occasion a client rang in to say that he had left an extremely expensive bottle of perfume on the plane . |
| 10 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 11 | If anyone writes in to say that Francis Bacon noticed the flashes when he got out of his coach to freeze a chicken in the snow , I shall leave the country , suitably disguised , and write piteous letters about being a laughing stock to all , coupled with the name of sundry . |
| 12 | ‘ What did she say to you , then , when she looked in to say goodnight ? |
| 13 | He turned his back and went in to say goodbye to his wife . |
| 14 | He 's a pleasant enough chap , though , and generally looks in to say hullo and have a glass of sherry on his way out to tramp over the common looking for flowers . |
| 15 | His revelation touched a nerve among viewers , many of whom phoned in to say how his courage had helped them admit their own problem for the first time . |
| 16 | Mum Caroline recalls : ‘ Oliver was jumping on the bouncy castle with his brothers when suddenly one of them ran in to say Oliver had hurt himself . |
| 17 | I just looked in to say I 've found my watch , Nurse Dungarvan . ’ |
| 18 | Wayne had rung in to say that he was sick , which meant that the little creep did n't want to drive past the picket line . |
| 19 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |
| 20 | Jasper had cut in to say that of course he understood this : " Everyone did . " |
| 21 | to really have that in to say look you know , to make it that obvious . |
| 22 | I would suggest that we use this as a lead in to say , Is n't it time you paid to microfilm all the old drawings ? |
| 23 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 24 | At that point Posi chimed in to say that another vessel had come into visual range just beyond the Valve . |
| 25 | 2.10 : Careers Officer pops in to say goodbye . |
| 26 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 27 | At nine o'clock he and the transient education officer were still sitting in the ante-room reading old copies of Country Life when the mess sergeant came in to say Mr Sims was on the phone . |
| 28 | Just dropped in to say all the best . ’ |
| 29 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 30 | They were at the toast and marmalade stage when Mrs. Mackintosh came in to say that Sir Bryan was wanted on the telephone . |