Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are constantly asked to say how we will pay for them . |
| 2 | Reacting to the death of a young man in custody , he said : ’ I personally wish to say how abhorrent it is to have to deal with children , because that is what Geoffrey was — a child in a penal setting — and under the conditions in which I have to run Feltham , for want of staff . ’ |
| 3 | It was the women who had to face their children 's disappointment at their unmet wants and it was the women who constantly had to say no : |
| 4 | If you can not comment say why not . |
| 5 | Well well she just wants to say well |
| 6 | In a sense the Advisor did not need to say more , for both her report and the fable of Fred begin to capture the mood of growing up . |
| 7 | I am not permitted to say where he will remove you to . |
| 8 | Oh , erm , I just want to say how can a four or five year old er , understand the concepts and the emotions involved in sexual relationships ? |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , he felt that someone was a really harmful influence , he did not hesitate to say so . |
| 10 | She did not dare say more . |
| 11 | Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves , and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so . |
| 12 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 13 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 14 | I WOULD just like to say how much I agree with Bill Anderton 's comments in his What the Papers Say column [ June issue ] , with regard to the Daily Mirror . |
| 15 | Well I was just going to say very much the same thing . |
| 16 | ‘ have : You need not fear saying too |
| 17 | Does the Prime Minister not remember saying just a year ago on the steps of Downing street that the Conservative party was ’ fully united for the future ’ and is that not patently false now when , in the approach to the vital meeting at Maastricht , the Tory party is in a state of open warfare ? |
| 18 | He was still inside her , but softened and withdrawn , and she could not have said honestly that the experience was an exciting one . |
| 19 | Sometimes this pleased him and sometimes it made him feel frightened , though he could not have said why . |
| 20 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 21 | It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why . |
| 22 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 23 | If he had chosen to confide in anyone then he could not have said clearly what was the summit of his aspiration . |
| 24 | I should not have said so much . |
| 25 | He could not have said more plainly , ‘ It will soon be you and I. ’ There was an understanding between them . |
| 26 | Jasper knew she was pretending , though he could not have said how he knew . |
| 27 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 28 | We do not wish to say how a writer should organise his written discourse into paragraphs before we have managed to characterise , in any comprehensive way , how writers typically do so . |
| 29 | If she 'd wanted to go off with someone else , she would just have said so . |
| 30 | If you do n't want to go you 'll just have to say so . ’ |