Example sentences of "say [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same .
2 There can not be many who would say the same of Tyson .
3 One can not say the same for those films which make specific connections between earlier events in British history and now .
4 The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management .
5 ‘ Well you could say the same about people . ’
6 ‘ I have never met a remotely effective idealist about whom you would n't say the same thing . ’
7 I wish I could say the same for ours and , soon , I shall .
8 Not many cab drivers could say the same . ’
9 ‘ I wish I could say the same .
10 We shall say the same if , when the testator had instituted a sole heir , for the sake of the person who would be heir on intestacy he wrote ‘ I ask in place of the estate which I left to you , which would pass on intestacy to my brother , that you be content with 100 gold pieces . '
11 Years later I could say the same of my old MGB .
12 I suppose that I shall say the same thing to my family when the time comes .
13 ‘ You could say the same of the people in the cars , ’ said Tina .
14 One can hardly say the same about the Post Office which busts a gut licking the boots of its business users at the same time as it cuts the quality of service to residential customers .
15 Show me any homebuilder who ca n't say the same thing about his project , but the finish-it-in-thirty-days-using-only-domestic-handtools ! brochures never tell you that , nor that it may take you weeks just to create the right kind of workplace in which to build your masterpiece .
16 O'Neill could say the same of his own team .
17 You probably could n't say the same for Howard Kendall — the Everton manager tried in vain to sign the big fellow from Luton earlier in the season .
18 Nigel used to say , ‘ If you can read , you can cook , ’ and I would say the same of gardening .
19 He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’
20 A majority of managers could say the same , so we can put away the handkerchiefs .
21 Shame the British weather could n't say the same .
22 ‘ I can say the same for all the great West Indies bowlers and myself for that matter .
23 Would she say the same think afterwards ?
24 She regretted she could not say the same about his chest and general condition , and explained why in detail .
25 And should we say the same of the large dalmatian sitting beside her , and also of her 6-month-old child strapped in the back seat ?
26 We might well say the same of a very young infant .
27 However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head .
28 And with this in mind and I 'm I 'm you will notice that I have n't spoken at all and that is quite deliberate on my part but then I can also say the same for many people sitting round here who know quite well that they have n't spoken either .
29 The next day , you could say the same and then , a couple of days later , you 'll build yourself a joint .
30 I only wish I could say the same about your politicians . ’
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