Example sentences of "say to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 2 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 3 | Well , as I say to me old mate Keef ( cor , strike a light , there 's a crazy geezer an' no mistake ! ) … |
| 4 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 5 | But I just say to my honourable friend I do n't think er compulsion er is the route with that we should follow . |
| 6 | I say to my rock-musician friends : ‘ What could be heavier than 15 people all together , blasting out on those bamboo tubes ? |
| 7 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 8 | I say to my hon. Friend — |
| 9 | 'Cos I says to her one day , well why do n't you ask yer , your relation , if he 'll er , if he 'll give yer a job . |
| 10 | In this the woman inadvertently mentions God and says to her fellow passenger : ‘ Oh , I do hope you did n't mind my saying that . |
| 11 | ‘ Would n't it be terrible to be bad ? ’ he says to her right hip . |
| 12 | It , it actually says to you two choices for each course . |
| 13 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 14 | She repeated Miguel 's words , which he had said to her only moments before . |
| 15 | Oh yeah but the thing is it 's something , it 's the main , it 's something she , it 's like said to her last night |
| 16 | Recently he 'd said to his fellow Spidergobs , ‘ We ai n't scavvies at all , even if others call us so . |
| 17 | Mark had often said to his American colleagues in Detroit and New York that the sales ' promotion literature put out by the Irish Development Authority to attract internationally mobile inward investment was superior to anything produced by any other European country . |
| 18 | But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous . |
| 19 | What I have said to our young prize-winners is , do n't be complacent . |
| 20 | She remembered Rob , the eldest boy , named after her mama 's father who had died in Arizona , saying to her one day , after she had been caught riding bareback at her uncle Orrin 's ranch in Wyoming , ‘ What a pity you were n't a boy , Sally-Anne ; we could have had such fun together . ’ |
| 21 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 22 | keeps saying to me new house new job new baby . |
| 23 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 24 | Kingsley Paige dealers were saying to their old clients : " Everything you 've read , heard , or suspected about Harvard , I can assure you is only half the story . |
| 25 | It began : ‘ I can imagine a wise and well-informed man , quite aloof from any political party , saying to our little gathering : ‘ The Country and the Empire are in three tangles , which the ordinary process of disputation followed by a General Election in this country can not unravel . ’ |
| 26 | Is that what she was saying to you last night ? |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , find out what Blackbeard said to 'im last night . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know what you said to 'im last evenin' , but 'e 'ad a bloke call later and done a bit of a business deal with 'im that earned a fiver , would yer believe . |
| 29 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 30 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |