Example sentences of "and [verb] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 2 | The boy sniffled and stammered to say something , but the words would not come . |
| 3 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 4 | So , befurred and kid-gloved , her hair put up elaborately around her pale grey hat , she went into the Talbot pew in Bishopstow church , her own pew now , and put Aunt Emily 's prayer book on the ledge before her , and knelt to say a prayer of profound thankfulness . |
| 5 | At last , as I set my knife and fork down , I caught the gloomy eye of my table-companion and ventured to say , ‘ You will be in Geneva tomorrow in time to see this wretched woman brought to justice , I presume ? ’ |
| 6 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | After assembly Mrs. Bulmer toured the school and stopped to say Hello , to children of Yellow class . |
| 8 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 9 | He was a comical little man but as she smiled and tried to say the right things — ‘ Oh ! |
| 10 | For as Socrates knew , a sequence of silly questions is a wonderful way of forcing someone to think out just what he believes and wants to say . |
| 11 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 12 | As the words blazed their rainbow colours around him he flung his hands back and prepared to say the eighth and final word that would appear in coruscating octarine and seal the spell . |
| 13 | Paisley had to be in Ulster that day , but Kevin McNamara , MP for Kingston-upon-Hull , realised that the Black issue was being avoided and intervened to say that MPs were concerned about the serious allegations which had been made . |
| 14 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 15 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 16 | He remained a student throughout his life , gave stipends to foreign scholars such as Grotius and Casaubon , and used to say that anyone who disturbed him before noon was no true scholar . |
| 17 | He saw the funny side of it and used to say when he met me years later " How 's your sexual depression , then , Bruce ? " |
| 18 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 19 | She said her husband had always been a bully and used to say they were both partners with a voting right but he had the casting vote . |
| 20 | A man intercepted him and began to say something . |
| 21 | Matilda stood up and began to say the two-times table . |
| 22 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 23 | He touched his peaked hat and began to say something to her . |
| 24 | Try and remember to say to her . |
| 25 | Initially startled , it calms , and seems to say ‘ Oh , what the hell , it 's only Laverne ’ . |
| 26 | No , this is n't this is n't travel agents making these statements this is us when we go and talk to say an implant |
| 27 | Both in Britain and in America , especially marked during the later 1950s and early 1960s , the voices of dissent began to rise — against McCarthyism , against the Bomb , against any established authority that tells individuals what to do and how to do it — voices that said , and continue to say , ‘ They sha n't push us around any longer . ’ |
| 28 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 29 | She left the two boys and went to say good-bye to Hepzibah . |
| 30 | Miss Logan was angry and distressed at such Judas-like behaviour , and expressed herself forcibly on the subject to the Armenian priest , who nodded and offered to say prayers for Miss Fergusson . |