Example sentences of "[noun sg] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 2 | And what does the gossip say ? |
| 3 | And in that second had made her glance say : ‘ Thank you , Harry , for opening the door … ’ |
| 4 | I think when you talk about symbolism of a wedding , in actual fact , what does a wedding say ? |
| 5 | I once heard my mummy say |
| 6 | ‘ I heard Commandant say all patients not cured will have to be disposed soon . ’ |
| 7 | She sensed Cobalt and Oliver fall back , and heard Cobalt say : ‘ I 'm going to take a look around . |
| 8 | What did the car say to a train ? |
| 9 | D' ya remember going through this and what did the fella say on the phone , can you remember ? |
| 10 | I heard the scorer say my man had 35 . |
| 11 | As soon as I heard a journalist say , ‘ John McCartney ? |
| 12 | Erm would the convenor say erm what he understands from the statement of faith and the statement of faith alone erm to be the teaching on the atonement that is , wh what are we taught about the atonement from the statement of faith ? |
| 13 | Yeah , what did the bloke say when he come ? |
| 14 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 15 | ‘ Did the girl say anything herself ? ’ |
| 16 | I mean , how can a girl say no ? |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't right because of what people might say — seeing you there night after night eating alone , they might have said you had been abandoned . ’ |
| 18 | Did the guard say which way he went ? ’ |
| 19 | Did not this column say , when the apparently creaking colossus joined Durham , that as long as he is capable of playing for a county he must play for England . |
| 20 | They heard the judge say they may find some of those verdicts diffcult to understand ; that was no reflection on their credibility as witnesses . |
| 21 | Question : What did the Queen say to you ? |
| 22 | ‘ What would your auntie say if you brought a Thespian ? ’ |
| 23 | How old would you have been in — what does the caption say ? — 1948 ? ’ |
| 24 | Those who benefit from the help say it 's invaluable . |
| 25 | What can the reductivist say in reply to this ? |
| 26 | What would your husband say if I brought you back in pieces ? ’ |
| 27 | " What did your husband say ? " |
| 28 | Andrée , waiting in her car , asked with something short of her usual self-possession , ‘ What did that termagant say about me ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What does your grandma say ? ’ |
| 30 | What did the robot say to the petrol pump ? |