Example sentences of "be [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |
| 2 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 3 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 4 | You are not to say that . ’ |
| 5 | You 're not to say to anyone , or I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't say anything — you 're not to say a single thing . |
| 7 | You 're not to say one word of any of this to your pals when you get back to Benedict 's ’ |
| 8 | You 're not to say I killed her . ’ |
| 9 | Now you 're not to say no . |
| 10 | And you 're about to say , hopefully , what is the difference ? |
| 11 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 12 | See what you 're about to say , Mary |
| 13 | After his Mum had been up to say goodnight to him , Philip lay a long time thinking and he could n't keep out of his mind the thin chalk letters on the pavement in Hill View . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll be down to say goodbye . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not to say ‘ Bejaysus ’ . |
| 16 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 17 | But there must be more to say about a fire which caused a national disaster , destroyed part of the British heritage and is going to cost the taxpayer a fortune . |
| 18 | The tradition of large , sometimes very large vases , probably still grave-markers , continues and the spreading of the figure-zones on these leads to drawing on an unprecedented scale ( fig. 9 ) : a monumental art of which there will be more to say in the next chapter . |
| 19 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 20 | Take yourself up to Keith and tell him I 'll be back to say what happened . ’ |
| 21 | I promised I 'd be back to say goodbye . |
| 22 | Right now I 'm here to say that ‘ MOR ’ is cheeky and angry and much too big for its platform boots ; in other words the single the Manics always should have made . |
| 23 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 24 | I mean I 'm here to say , er is that disability but he 's , he 's a great lad int he ? |
| 25 | ‘ Pat sends his best wishes , Mark , and says he 's sorry that he wo n't be there to say ‘ Goodbye ’ and wish you luck . |
| 26 | Cheerleaders , mostly in the form of software companies , will be there to say they have or will comply . |
| 27 | Perhaps what I 'm about to say has something to do with the answer to that question , so I 'll come to the point as briefly as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ Because what I 'm about to say would then be very much out of place and I could lose my practice . ’ |
| 29 | Drama opens with teacher saying " Please do n't tell the king what I 'm about to say to you … |
| 30 | What I 'm about to say constitutes a legal warning . |