Example sentences of "[prep] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline . |
| 2 | It 's the same thing every day ; you ca n't sort of say you 're not going to do it , because you 've got to do it — like preparing a meal : it 's got to be done because if you do n't do it , the children would n't eat … |
| 3 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 4 | Yes , so that I can just sort of say , you know , we did invite and , that might help |
| 5 | Can I just sort of say I 'm I 'm somebody working on a team er , that deals with eating disorders . |
| 6 | You ca n't sort of say — well , I know some people do — but I ca n't say ‘ I wo n't pay that bill because I 've got to buy some food . ’ |
| 7 | If you think we 're doing too much you can sort of say , Ooh hang on . |
| 8 | And it was a fight for the f towards the end of the week it was a fight to sort of say , Well , Sha n't be able to move it , use it until t the man comes . |
| 9 | Well there was no one , no table or nowhere to put your notes , nowhere , one to sort of say well this is Mrs she 's come from so and so . |
| 10 | The best thing would be to s sort of say I do n't know but the sort of thing which came into my mind were questions like you know , Which accents do you think |
| 11 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 12 | But I mean it 's up to you if results are very simple you can sort of say , Oh well sixty percent went this way and forty |
| 13 | They 'd , they 'd , they 'd sort of say , they 'd , they , they were supposed to book a , a midwife you see . |
| 14 | And erm there used to be shops where they would , they 'd sort of say , we can give you pills to bring it on , but I , I do n't think they ever really did . |
| 15 | I mean I found it almost as ridiculous as trying to sort of say , well half of my clerical staff are fairly incompetent so I think we should have a sort of incompetency rating for each of |
| 16 | it would have a list of , and it would sort of say that sort of command Dot Com , vers version three or something . |
| 17 | Then it will sort of say itself . |
| 18 | the exams and if I can sort of say , you do n't need to worry about |
| 19 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 20 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 21 | and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer |
| 22 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 23 | If anybody comes to say , and you tend to sort of say well what do you really want to talk about , er , and do that . |
| 24 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na also sort of preface it with erm instructions to sort of say okay look |
| 26 | you know because some people claim not to , blind and sighted , er you know and then , then maybe you can sort of say well , you know , what sort of things do you see , what sort of things do you feel and then get on to something specific |
| 27 | And people would sort of say , There 's a division in NATO . |
| 28 | You know , and he 'd got you , you ca n't sort of say , do n't ever be in touch with me or do n't ever or do n't ever |
| 29 | my o my own personal view is if we just pay the fifteen and it 's sort of off in there straight away and then spend but not to sort of say , well you can spend it and update it ca n't you ? |
| 30 | He said we might sort of say to you right we want fifty quid . |