Example sentences of "[verb] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time I remembered all the things I had forgotten to say in the railway carriage . |
| 2 | You will need to say on the application form whether you want to vote by post or by proxy . |
| 3 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 4 | This is what the Bible has to say on the subject : |
| 5 | That is absolutely all he has to say on the matter . |
| 6 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 7 | And yet , all Glenny has to say about the army 's role in the present , Bosnian war is that they are ‘ genuinely confused ’ , ‘ waverers ’ pushed by Muslim and Croat provocations into the clutches of ‘ unashamed Serb nationalists ’ . |
| 8 | But you 'll see what Doctor Morris has to say about the place . ’ |
| 9 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 10 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A disaster , ’ is all Alex has to say about the matter . |
| 12 | The statutory duty to consult a trade union about redundancies is well known , but both employers and those directly affected tend to be less familiar with what the law has to say about the need for consultation with affected individuals . |
| 13 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 14 | That 's all I want to say on the principle erm of the criteria , as far as the detailed content erm er is concerned I suspect we could talk all day about whether social should replace affordable in one of the criteria , or whether the full stop is in the right place er in another one . |
| 15 | I believe that the C E C is accepting this , and I just want to say to the branch secretaries out there , do what I do , tell every member grab the cheque and throw the disclaimer in the bin . |
| 16 | I only want to say through the Voice : I am truly grateful to them all , and God bless them all . |
| 17 | What is appropriate is first to desire to love your local church ; second , get alone with God and see what he wants to say to the church ; third , to begin to express this in your housegroup : ‘ I feel what God is saying is … . ’ |
| 18 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 19 | We 're all rather keen to hear what you 've got to say about the war . ’ |
| 20 | We 've not only got to say to the government , that you 're not coping you 've got to say , if you 're a mother , a worker and a wife , you 've got to say to your husband , look , I 'm not coping . |
| 21 | So what we 've got to say to the County Council I would suggest is that this is a training course similar to those we always got release for branch officials and shop stewards so why should you turn your nose up at this training course ? |
| 22 | The Department 's courses accordingly aim to give an understanding of what German writers and thinkers have had to say in the past of the age and the society within which and for which they wrote and make students familiar with contemporary life and literature , art and film in the German-speaking countries . |
| 23 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 24 | But I thought to myself , one day somebody is going to say to the child , ‘ Come and whisper in my ear … . ’ ’ |
| 25 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 26 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 27 | Er I would like to say at the outset that erm we we support the deposit version of the er the deposit version allocations of the alteration . |
| 28 | Erm , I would like to say at the start . |
| 29 | As he did so , he frantically searched his mind for something reassuring to say to the maniac in the back . |
| 30 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |