Example sentences of "say [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , Aunty Pam ca n't say carnations can she Vicki ? |
| 2 | She ca n't say carnations ! |
| 3 | The code does say adverts should not contain material which would encourage children |
| 4 | We are to imagine a situation in which the State provides all the services it currently provides , let us say roads and a sewerage system , free education and a free health service , social security and unemployment benefits and the like . |
| 5 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 6 | Did I say knickers or a worser word ? |
| 7 | ‘ I must say all this is rather terrifying for me — these card indexes and things — or should one say indices ? — I never know . ’ |
| 8 | I mean they 're not but let's say they b big packets of lots of electrons so we 're using things at erm let's say watts is equal to so many electrons per second . |
| 9 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 10 | I 'll say thanks very much to Councillor Stuart Argyle for coming in our thanks as well to David Poole for joining us on the phone thanks David . |
| 11 | Oh yeah , yeah but I , I but I just thought so I , so I , so I , so I said to him well I , if it was me I 'd just write back and say thanks , yes I 'll come actually , thank you very much |
| 12 | You 'd say animals . |
| 13 | From the time he could say words , he always spoke correctly , no baby talk … |
| 14 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 15 | What d' you say lads eh ? ’ |
| 16 | I mean , we 've been longtime admirers of yours , well you might even say fans since the days of Screentest really . |
| 17 | Do you say prayers ? |
| 18 | He 'll just say prayers in the corner , you know ! |
| 19 | What shall we say spins or rotates . |
| 20 | A lot clearer could be erm , let's say bystanders , bystanders three , two of whom were half listening . |
| 21 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 22 | Does that say plants ? |
| 23 | Show him nothing he can say makes any difference . |
| 24 | And , of course , working with professional directors who wo n't say things like ‘ Your uvula is n't relaxed enough ’ , but simply ‘ I ca n't hear you ’ . |
| 25 | Well , I kinda knew you 'd say that , but had forgotten the unique thrill of the way only you can say things . |
| 26 | They 'd say things like , ‘ Glen , you 've been a really naughty boy . |
| 27 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 28 | Should n't say things like that , I suppose , ’ he simpered , ‘ but all my friends are going off and doing it . |
| 29 | ‘ Never mind what I said , I do n't say things the way you ordinary people do , Marcus and I understand each other , we are folk of the frontier . ’ |
| 30 | I took a chance there but things … you might say things conspired in Elsie 's favour . |