Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 2 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |
| 3 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 4 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 5 | Their range includes an Anti-Blemish cover-up cream — because , despite what they might say to the contrary , boys like to hide their spots , too ! |
| 6 | Despite what they might say , Afghan Whigs are n't all dressed up with nowhere to go . |
| 7 | It should be noted that what I have called a two-stage golden thread approach implies that human beings have some kind of control over what they will say is right . |
| 8 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 9 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |