Example sentences of "to say [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 2 | If you 'd like to take those away with you will actually erm reinforce some of the things that I 'm going to say during the next hour . |
| 3 | Maurice Sendak also has a clear idea of his role ( Lorraine , 1977 , p. 152 ) : ‘ To be an illustrator is to be a participant , someone who has something equally important to say as the writer of the book — occasionally something more important , but certainly never the writer 's echo ’ . |
| 4 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 5 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 6 | historical , biographical , rhetorical , mythical , Freudian , jungian , existentialist , Marxist , structuralist , Christian-allegorical , ethical , exponential , linguistic , phenomenological , archetypal , you name it ; so that when each commentary was written there would be simply nothing further to say about the novel in question . |
| 7 | But neither Londoners nor Mancunians , Geordies , Scousers , Brummies nor Bristolians appear to have anything to say about the almost invisible architecture that continues to destroy the character of British cities : the architecture with no name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Eliot 's Bough was The Golden Bough which had plenty to say about the rebirth of gods accompanying vegetation . |
| 11 | Stone might not have much to say about the past hundred years , but the shadow of the present undoubtedly hangs over the book . |
| 12 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 13 | They have nothing new to say about the war . |
| 14 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | They are running out of rude things to say about each other , or new things to say about the NHS . |
| 17 | Whatever else there is to say about the States , it exists to be driven in ; a road runner 's playground littered with the seductive comforts of the drive-in-drive-out lifestyle . |
| 18 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 19 | The EC has had little to say about the Gulf , and to that few have listened . |
| 20 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 21 | It was best not to think about what Cabochon would have to say about the sexual readjustment . |
| 22 | Asked in February 1987 what he had to say about the conclusions of the Tower Report , the first detailed inquiry into the affair , he referred reporters to ‘ the eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5 ’ : ‘ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness ' sake , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . ’ |
| 23 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 24 | It had nothing to say about the need to reform the way the country was governed and its manifesto was a ‘ job lot of ideas ’ with little sense of direction . |
| 25 | But this idea of God as an object up above the world ( or up above the universe ) is firmly ruled out by all that these religions have to say about the divine nature . |
| 26 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |
| 27 | Clearly a great deal of what religious traditions have to say about the Deity presupposes a personal God . |
| 28 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 29 | Looking back after forty-five years had elapsed , he had the following to say about the ‘ Originals ’ of L Detachment . |
| 30 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |