Example sentences of "says [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can rely neither on what it says about the state of the economy nor on the little that it reveals about the state of the public finances . |
| 2 | erm there 's no doubt that our society , whatever kind of sentimental things it says about the status of the housewife , gives the housewife extremely low status , and that power and status and respect in society are accorded to people who achieve things in the work world occupationally outside the home , and given that that is so I think women , to increase their self respect , have got to achieve things outside the home , yes . |
| 3 | This identification with , and punishment of , the mother-goddess is vividly portrayed in what Edith Weigert-Vowinkel says about the cult of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her castrated son , Attis . |
| 4 | This assessment is borne out in part by what Gandhi himself says about the need for sexual renunciation in order to realize God . |
| 5 | I understand what the hon. Gentleman says about the nature of the charge laid against certain people and the roles that they may have played in particular crimes . |
| 6 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |
| 7 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 8 | I gave mum thirty five pound because after all you know , I think she needs it he says with the price of food and all and |
| 9 | But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff . |
| 10 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |
| 11 | As Harry says in the play with which we started this chapter : |
| 12 | Andy is telling Kermit it will be all right , Dad 's here to take care of us , and Kermit says in the voice of doom , the voice of a gypsy fortune-teller , ‘ Do n't trust Dad . ’ |
| 13 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 14 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 15 | He says in the prologue to the Gospel that he was not a witness to the events themselves ( 1:1–4 ) |
| 16 | He says in the prologue to Book I that Charles in May 841 , asked him to produce a record of recent history , " because , my lord , you know that you and your men have suffered undeservedly the persecutions of Lothar … |
| 17 | Read it in our way and we shall merely be , as Lewis says in the preface to The Discarded Image , like ‘ travellers who carry their resolute Englishry with them all over the Continent , mix only with other English tourists , enjoy all they see for its ‘ quaintness ’ and have no wish to realise what those ways of life , those churches , those vineyards mean to the natives ’ . |
| 18 | Chris Mattison has probably done more than any other recent author to champion the snakey cause : as he says in the introduction to this excellent paperback , ’ … though I respect the ability of some species to cause a rapid and somewhat sensational death , outright fear of them is , to me , irrational . ’ |
| 19 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 20 | ( ‘ The best thing for being sad ’ , Merlyn says in The Sword in the Stone , 1938 , ‘ is to learn something . ’ ) |
| 21 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 22 | You know as an Adventist do you know what it says in the book of Revelation ? |
| 23 | Well it says on the back of the thing you take these off and use that , use them as that thing his hands . |
| 24 | Er Right he says on the subject of attachment of identity and language and why and why not language is maintained , he cites Harris and and the Yiddish and Na-dene speakers . |
| 25 | Well , it says on the bottom of the , your copy of the charge sheet , production of driving license you must produce it , failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr ! |
| 26 | Well it says on the bottom of er your copy of the charge sheet production of driving licence you must produce it . |
| 27 | I it says on the bottom of this Phil ! |
| 28 | Erm and what it says on the blurb on the cover is that the power stations of England and Wales are surrounded by larg large areas of land which are often remote , uncultivated and undisturbed by man . |
| 29 | I want to talk to him , ’ he says to the guard at the door . |
| 30 | ‘ Sorry about that , ’ he says to the parcel on the floor . |