Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Well well she just wants to say well |
| 3 | Well I was just going to say very much the same thing . |
| 4 | If she 'd wanted to go off with someone else , she would just have said so . |
| 5 | If you do n't want to go you 'll just have to say so . ’ |
| 6 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 7 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 8 | I soon learned to say as little as possible , meanwhile doing my best to cultivate a London or ‘ Cockney ’ accent , which my parents took great pains both to prevent and to correct . |
| 9 | Just now and again when they do get , you know , just past you , you just have to say now look go or else I 'm going to call the police , and they go . |
| 10 | That is saying something and , indeed , there are those closer to him who suggest that he really believes he has got the ball ‘ on a piece of string ’ at the moment , but hardly dares to say so in case it tempts fate . |
| 11 | Chairman , I do n't really want to say very much er by way of rounding up I think that we 've had a very significant er debate here today , there 's been a lot of discussion on very important issues , erm I think throughout that we we 've managed to get er a certain number of of issues really er in my view at least anyway sorted out . |
| 12 | That 's what I 'm saying you you know you 've really got to say well , the generator can be there . |
| 13 | He wished he could heartily have said as much for Sub-Prior Herluin . |
| 14 | I should never have looked and he should never really have said just look at that , oh aye ! |
| 15 | The same is true of these PRS EGs ; both the EG-1 and EG-2 feel like my own PRS , which I suppose is what I 'm really trying to say here . |
| 16 | Something I have until now neglected to say aloud to myself . |
| 17 | She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything . |
| 18 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 19 | And he 's either going to say well that 's great , that 's exactly what I would suggest , or have you considered this , have you considered that , which is a great security when you 're starting . |
| 20 | And then there was Ken as James Bailey , the egghead who knew more about everything than anyone else and never stopped saying so . |
| 21 | They 'd never needed to say much . |
| 22 | She was actually the real mother of one of the children , but was never allowed to say so — ‘ to avoid sadness for the other children ’ . |
| 23 | My reaction to her comment was , to some extent , ‘ So what ? ’ , though I never dared to say so to her ! |