Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 2 | ‘ Well Denis , you 'd better hurry up and say what you were going to say , ’ said Michael . |
| 3 | and I , I mean , we could all go along and say what we want and what our needs are but that 's not what we 're talking about . |
| 4 | No you would n't they 'll all come on and say where 's that girl that sings Robin Hood . |
| 5 | Whe whether Alan should write out and ask everybody and we said , oh no people have done that ad nauseam and they 'll only write back and say , well I 've done this before and you 've still never listened to me . |
| 6 | I ca n't just ring up and say hi two of my , well a friend and an acquaintance |
| 7 | I wish we could just phone up and say that the car 's been snatched |
| 8 | I can not stand here and say , ’ You will not get your Bill through unless you do something about victimisation . ’ |
| 9 | What , shall I just go in and say can I have all your houses that 's under forty thousand , forty thousand and under , yeah ? |
| 10 | If you can not just go along and say no we 're not borrowing and live within your budget as you are saying . |
| 11 | he walks past there , if he really wanted to bust us that bad he 'd probably just come up and say right |
| 12 | He 'd just come in and say , " You fucking frigid cow , " and all that . |
| 13 | Well I think it gives them a link with the church , erm and they do n't just come in and say oh yes , turn up on Saturday and you 'll get married , there 's some meeting before that |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Yeah but sh he should I mean on the road , you should be able to just write in and say , I want this to happen . |
| 16 | We can not leap in and say , ‘ You seem nervous/alluring/self-obsessed . ’ |
| 17 | Well then did we all just sit there and say well you know do n't rot there 's nuclear sort of fallout and er oh dear erm what we going to do about it and decide should we get on onto it |
| 18 | I could just turn up and say , oh am I a day too early ? |
| 19 | Yeah they can actually just turn up and say let's have a look at your box . |
| 20 | I ca n't just turn round and say , ‘ Sorry , chaps , it was all a mistake . ’ ' |
| 21 | We ca n't just turn round and say right scrap this whole and very valuable part of this council 's work . |
| 22 | if I worked there and they did n't do it , I 'd just turn round and say , no you 're not having the bloody key until you can learn to keep it clean . |
| 23 | And when I do n't want to , I 'll just turn round and say |
| 24 | Because even if somebody said I would like that training if it 's not available you ca n't just turn around and say well tough it 's not available you ca n't |
| 25 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 26 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 27 | And Little Billy would always call back and say , ‘ I 'm being good , Mummy . ’ |
| 28 | You could always stand back and say , ‘ I 'm not really going through all that angst and stuff , that 's just my persona . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm one of the people who 've actually got the guts now to stand up and say that I . . |
| 30 | And it 's only a bit of entertainment , and we must really stand up and say this is our game and , it belongs to us ! |