Example sentences of "say [conj] you [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave go I say or you 'll send us both below to crack our skulls . |
| 2 | Ring the bell and say that you would like to adopt an old person . |
| 3 | About open learning and they 've got an H N C in Business Communications , now they also say that you could do this as a student at the college . |
| 4 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |
| 5 | They say that you can make cells reproduce faster if you injure the skin , if you inflame it , slap it , sunburn it or even rub it . |
| 6 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 7 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 8 | Just say that you will marry me . ’ |
| 9 | Er , I gather that the last letter that had from you dated the twenty fourth of November in which you say that you will get back as quite soon to decide whether you want to apply for one of these erm erm ways of dealing with the problem or not . |
| 10 | ‘ Please say that you will agree , will at least let me try to earn my own living , find out if I am strong enough to do so — not go back to being useless , merely a symbol of Papa 's wealth , not really his or your daughter . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Say that you will accept it , ’ Zurachina prompted . |
| 12 | Erm but we wo n't , well we 're not going to be descriptive , we 're not going to ask say that you must wear suits or you must whatever . |
| 13 | Say that you 'd like to know . |
| 14 | Take along a prosperous adviser on all shopping sprees , demonstrate a high degree of trust and strong reliance in what they say and you may have unexpected protection should the seller go out of business and the goods fall to pieces . |
| 15 | You 're a good judge of character , laddie , and as I 'm not so bad at that myself , I 'll bide by what you say if you 'll answer me this ; what 's your true reason ? ’ |
| 16 | get it and er they 've brought the full and then they say if you must smoke , smoke then with a filter tip one and that |
| 17 | They say if you can walk , then you can be taught to dance . |
| 18 | Well would you perhaps like to give them a , a ring to , to say what I spoke about today then I 'll give them a ring , say if you could ring them tomorrow then I 'll ring them er er tomorrow evening a as well and then perhaps I can , you know , they , you 've given them the ground work to actually er for me to ring as well and then I can discuss with him and arrange an appointment to go and see him is that okay ? |
| 19 | ‘ Just say if you 'd prefer to knock off . ’ |
| 20 | You could restore the original layout and typography , identify the genre , the title , the publisher , the author , the dedication , make a guess at the identity of Jean and Helga , say that this is only the beginning of something , predict possible continuations , say whether you would read on … and answer many other questions besides . |
| 21 | I say whether you can go and then I 've put it in there . |
| 22 | This common experience recommends the approach to writing which says that you should start immediately by writing your ideas down , being prepared to discard them later when your thinking has evolved beyond your early plan . |
| 23 | He says that you must start on the triangle and continue in long strokes . |
| 24 | Because of his speed and er Th certainly this one here , I mean the Highway Code says that you must make sure that it 's safe before you commence an overtaking manoeuvre . |
| 25 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 26 | Tony always says that you can tell a happy motorcyclist by the flies on his teeth . |
| 27 | This was as shown ; although June says that you can work with other combinations of stitches . |
| 28 | I have a Rule of Life ( No. 74 , actually ) which says that you can work your way out of most situations if you can give yourself enough thinking time . |
| 29 | Jason says that you can take any group down the course and give them a thrill you do n't have to be good and special needs groups such as blind people can also have a go … |
| 30 | We all know that there is some disturbance outside — you have already said that you will make a statement on that — but it is unusual for the doors not to be locked by this stage in a Division . |