Example sentences of "[adv] say [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes you would actually get , a magic E right , or a magic I making that vowel right say its long name , so it would be quite difficult to say dig giding |
| 2 | I only say what thousands think . ’ |
| 3 | One particular passage , ‘ wonderful silver ship driving through air at 75 miles an hour towards Bermuda ’ , perhaps says it all . |
| 4 | " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . " |
| 5 | ‘ Just say something nice to her , then . |
| 6 | He had not said anything more about money , but now he started again . |
| 7 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |
| 8 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 9 | But you 've just said one big one |
| 10 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 11 | But he had already said something similar to Burun , and did not know which of his words had been repeated verbatim . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 13 | I realise I 'm not saying anything new , but I 'd like to reinforce some of the links between the topics raised in that issue . |
| 14 | I thought he was going to say , I 'm not saying anything more in front of him , but no , he seemed to have forgotten all about Vern . |
| 15 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 16 | Yeah , well I 'm just saying you all have to write |
| 17 | Knowing that they would make fun of him , he had been very careful not to say her new name in front of Tom Fish . |
| 18 | He was lovely but watching him in that living room somehow said it all . |
| 19 | He was relieved to feel that he would not be alone with Eleanor and was sure that he would be able , casually and quietly , to say something about Liza in the course of the evening — that is , if Eleanor did not say something first . |
| 20 | I can not say what that last sentence signifies except that , as is apparent elsewhere in the book , Mr Nikiforuk dislikes rich people . |
| 21 | It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally . |
| 22 | I can not say anything more . |
| 23 | Jenny 's face clouded with disappointment , but she did not say anything more about Matthew . |
| 24 | Moore and other intuitionists thought that , since the most basic sorts of ethical statement did not say anything true or false about matters of natural or empirical fact , they must say something true or false about some special ethical non-natural fact . |
| 25 | No , can I just say something right , I 'm not desperate and I 'm not a slag or anything , it 's just that I really really fancy Howard , and if I could I would suck his willy . |
| 26 | Yeah well no it 's not as if you ever say anything nice about me . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've always said our Double success came out of failure . |
| 28 | I always says its longer than Hamlet and not as funny . |
| 29 | ( On one occasion with magnificent inconsequence , she had remarked after staring at one of Clara 's dazzling reports , " Well , handsome is as handsome does " ; this was the only occasion on which she had ever said anything complimentary about Clara 's looks . ) |
| 30 | Will the seventy seven who said yes like to say who this is , yes |