Example sentences of "say a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | You dress to impress , the clothes you wear say a lot for you . ’ |
| 2 | These were much the best performances I have heard from him , and say a lot for the state of Horndean , Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies , from whom the Festival Chorus were drawn . |
| 3 | ‘ People who say a lot do n't normally do a lot . |
| 4 | And I and I as I say a lot was done because the poverty . |
| 5 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 6 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 7 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 8 | Yeah , but as I say a lot of that could be Doctor Spock 's erm |
| 9 | It also says a lot about modern American TV . |
| 10 | On the former point yesterday 's Old Bailey judgment says a lot about contemporary British social mores . |
| 11 | He went on : ‘ BR have not talked to us about limiting overtime , but it says a lot about the industry when limiting shifts to 12 hours a day is considered progress . ’ |
| 12 | The change says a lot about the persona he was already being driven into . |
| 13 | They made sure by defeating Algeria , which says a lot for their prowess . |
| 14 | It says a lot about the present that the recent past has become the subject of much dewy-eyed recollection — mostly by people who were still at primary school when Grandmaster Flash began cutting his way into musical history . |
| 15 | Deborah ( Chapter 2 ) mentions how advertising ‘ pretties up periods ’ , and it is a fact that since putting ads on television for sanitary products , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has had more complaints than for any other product , which says a lot about the public 's discomfort and embarrassment where periods are concerned . |
| 16 | Design says a lot about a country , and our headlong moral and political decline in the post-war era is laid bare by the abject standard of all the contemporary examples of design on view . |
| 17 | It says a lot for me , it really does . ’ |
| 18 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 19 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 20 | It says a lot for our common social perceptions that various observers can agree in their assessments of an individual seen with different people , in different places at different times , but only a detailed inventory , as Robert Cairns and James Green at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , have pointed out , can tell us how actual forms of behaviour are elicited , maintained and organised . |
| 21 | The Shell gold Card says a lot about you . |
| 22 | The speed at which ejaculate is estimated to spurt from the penis says a lot about the pressure that 's built up before its release . |
| 23 | ‘ Talk Much ’ says a lot about them , and their resilience . |
| 24 | ‘ It says a lot that the players have knuckled down in adversity . |
| 25 | Aside from this speaking volumes about the worldwide potential for struggle and conflict on the one hand and great reform on the other , it says a lot about your capacity to triumph over the circumstances that you meet . |
| 26 | It says a lot for the quality of the football when Vinnie Jones , inevitably booked against his old club for backchat after 29 minutes , looks the best player on view . |
| 27 | It says a lot about the quality of US diplomatic thinking that the Americans were flattered to be put on the same level as the Soviet rulers . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I do n't understand , ’ Matilda said to her . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm looking at the ceiling/With a lonely feeling , ’ murmurs singer Mark at one point , which says a lot , really . |
| 30 | The fact they confused travellers with people taking their yearly holidays says a lot . |