Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] to say [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 2 | Upper socio-economic single girls were much more likely to say that they did not use soap and water because it would ruin their skin . |
| 3 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 4 | it is not too fanciful to say that they need to be loved and welcome our presence . |
| 5 | Defendants are often very keen to say that they will not pay for a disbursement in respect of a report that they have not seen . |
| 6 | In fact it would be even more true to say that they conversed largely by the sign method , overcoming any difficulties which might have arisen over differences m mother tongues . |