Example sentences of "do [pron] say [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 2 | come here big man what did you say on the |
| 3 | I mean , er , in terms of planning what , what did you say at the beginning ? |
| 4 | What did you say about the cost ? |
| 5 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 6 | Wha what did you say about the er hotel ? |
| 7 | PAMELA : But sir , did you say in the house ? |
| 8 | If the contract has been given for , say , 100 pneumonia cases , or for 100 fractures ( or 100 births ! ) , what do you say to the 101st case that comes along ? |
| 9 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 10 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 11 | Brenda , what do you say to the argument that having these sites is basically a means of roping people into the system ? |
| 12 | well I 'll deal with that after we 've dealt with the question of costs , what do you say on the question of costs doctor ? |
| 13 | The Prime Minister summed up what many of us wanted to say when he put a question to Tony Benn : ‘ what do you say about the thuggish act of a walk-out , without notice , from a Children 's Hospital ? ’ |
| 14 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 15 | Now what did we say about the next lesson ? |
| 16 | How long did we say for the survey ? |
| 17 | How much did we say in the newsletter ? |
| 18 | And what do we say of the present day psychiatrist how mad , how mad ? . |
| 19 | Where do we say by the proposal . |
| 20 | ‘ What did they say on the telephone ? ’ |
| 21 | What else did they say at the briefing ? |
| 22 | What did they say in the Owsla ? |
| 23 | Asked her what sort of coins she uses do you reckon they go with it , do they say on the front page then about that superstore . |
| 24 | What do they say about the ravens ? |
| 25 | ‘ What , exactly , did it say on the radio ? ’ he asked in a very tight voice . |
| 26 | What did he s What did he say to the to the pony ? |
| 27 | ‘ Bzz , bzz , what did he say to the dog ? |
| 28 | What did he say about the |
| 29 | What does one say to the mother who complains that sometimes her child will go on and on doing something that is not only naughty but dangerous . |
| 30 | Instead of indulging in childish comments about the number of nuclear weapons , what does he say to the 140 non-nuclear nations who signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty ? |