Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that of course er may be true but er as the Group Captain has has said here in the reduced er spec position which we now face and judgement was taken as to how much we should invest in stocks of reserve drop tanks at this point and the option exists to order more . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we have done in the past , but the time has come to say enough is enough . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And Mama has written to say how grateful she is that we 'll be able to see how the old house has stood up to the war and cope with any disasters for her . ’ |
| 4 | As for the export to the US of Magnox plutonium prior to 1971 the government has refused to say how much was exchanged . |
| 5 | If we were to say that the topic of this discourse fragment is ‘ the meaning of the expression ‘ smoke the houses ’ ' , we could not claim to have said very much of analytic interest . |
| 6 | Your letter does not have to have said why the Council refused your request , because this information will be given to the Appeal Committee . |
| 7 | A lot of people I 've spoken to have said well what sort of things do you want ? |
| 8 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope I did n't hurt you , ’ she felt compelled to say politely when Luke had showered and returned to the bedroom . |
| 10 | Yeah , what do have to say anyway ? |
| 11 | It does not seem illuminating to say either that thin is ambiguous , or that these contexts restrict its meaning in mutually exclusive ways . |
| 12 | I HAD to write to say how brilliant your Zodiac File cartoon strip is . |
| 13 | Do n't forget when you see daddy what you 've got to say straight away . |
| 14 | If a case is closed , you 've got to say why . |
| 15 | I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal . |
| 16 | That 's all I 've got to say now . |
| 17 | the questions like ev everything that you 've got to say how much time is spent on it and then how much does that cost you . |
| 18 | I 've got ta , I think people are so un-organised with Christmas , you 've got to be organised , you 've got to say like , you know , I 'm only going to those shops , you know , if like like now , say so we went in Boots |
| 19 | She made ee she made a Heather a birthday cake the other day and I , I 've got say actually this cake was pretty good but like , she had to take it to school ! |
| 20 | When Wendell had been interviewed , he had refused to say how many dollars the shindig was costing him but he admitted it was a lot . |
| 21 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 22 | Allen looked as if he would have liked to have said more , but the presence of Meryl evidently constrained him . |
| 23 | ‘ Friends have rung to say how awful they feel about what has happened . |
| 24 | See what his lordship 's got to say when he comes round tomorrow . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , the very idea of a major structure or grid into which leys have to fit says more about our own cultural environment than the reality of the landscape . |