Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other countries are not so justified in saying they spend so much on military equipment because they need to protect themselves , like Iraq . |
| 2 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 3 | The origins of Barclays go back some 250 years and we have only grown by saying ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 4 | [ But I will ] only conclude with saying and thinking — she is my mother . |
| 5 | some friends at here , they er was in the woods line and er the gaffer , Ernie , we went through Little London School together , and he says anything we can do , anytime Richard , you 've only got ta say . |
| 6 | Incredibly the Appeal Court ruled that Mathews was not necessarily lying in saying that Murphy was the driver of the getaway van but could have been mistaken ; and this third appeal was dismissed . |
| 7 | This merely amounts to saying that if two things are observed as spatially distinct , then they are not observed as spatially indistinct , which is true enough but hardly illuminating . |
| 8 | This obviously amounts to saying that the market value of investment trust shares is determined by the demand for them and not ( as with units in a unit trust ) by the performance of the underlying assets . |
| 9 | I can only conclude by saying that I am sorry the situation has developed the way it has . |
| 10 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 11 | cos I 'm not suddenly gon na to say to somebody now |
| 12 | It 's alright I was only gon na say I think you 've got a er erm strong battle to wage against the sort of natural freedom of people |
| 13 | I was only gon na say we 're , we will probably have a much clearer idea by the time we get to the results . |
| 14 | And he was only gon na say nothing . |
| 15 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 16 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 17 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He must just feel like saying to everybody |
| 20 | I 've just got ta say Shelly |
| 21 | Especially that further information bit , you 've just got ta say how wondyfu wonderful you are |
| 22 | And she finally ends by saying , ‘ All I can look forward to now is the toneless drone of the master 's voice and the pendulum swing of his leg over the desk . ’ |
| 23 | I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light . |
| 24 | Erm and I think actually being part of them and you know like , inner city churches , living right the you know the vicar 's and the the congregation 's not just coming from say to , but actually living in the area . |
| 25 | Well I 'm just joking by saying you 've come round to see me have n't you ? |
| 26 | Do n't know , I just felt like saying it . |
| 27 | But she was saying this that and the other but I just felt like saying oh , listen I know more than you anyway ! |
| 28 | She waves at Kurt , says , ‘ I just wan na say goodnight , ’ then sits down next to him . |
| 29 | Oh hello , I just wan na say hello to Pete |
| 30 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |