Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Having seen the devastation in that beautiful valley that has resulted from the conflict , and having seen the impact of terrorism , which I deplore both there and here , may I say to the Secretary of State that while , of course , the matter must first be decided between India and Pakistan , no settlement can be acceptable that is not acceptable to the people of Kashmir , both Muslim and Hindu ?
2 Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration .
3 But could I say to the minister that she will be aware that the South Thames tech actually is the first tech to get involved in kids club network and that one of the very useful things that has happened in my constituency is the setting up the first kids after school club in in in Vauxhall .
4 ‘ What can I say to the doctor , Mam ?
5 What can I say about the sculptor that designed the molecules of the grenadilla whose shape causes this ecstasy in the matrix of the senses ?
6 Can I say from the panel 's point of view , thank you very much gentlemen for your contribution this afternoon .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 WHAT would you say to the chance of winning a top of the range portable TV with remote control and Champion Sport Vouchers worth £20 each ?
10 What would you say to the commentator who said , ‘ My , here 's another case of the doctor playing God ? ’
11 What would you say to the criticism that by opening up new routes you simply add to the problem of over capacity , and so there 's less money for everyone ?
12 Brenda , what do you say to the argument that having these sites is basically a means of roping people into the system ?
13 What would you say to the lawyer who would analyse what you did and what many other doctors , I 'm sure , do every day , and would say , ‘ This looks like homicide — killing by injection . ’
14 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 ?
15 While we 're on the U S , could you say on the oil services er , how much of the er , good performances do you pumps turning round and again what are the prospects of that division for the current year ?
16 I mean , er , in terms of planning what , what did you say at the beginning ?
17 What did you say about the cost ?
18 What can you say about the lengths of MJ and JP ?
19 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 .
20 What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was
21 What can you say about the game that was n't said in the last caption ?
22 What would you say in the Galloway for somebody that just stayed pa passing through the farm here , you know , going from place to place ,
23 PAMELA : But sir , did you say in the house ?
24 What can you say from the result about the effects of early industrialism on the physical health of the working class ?
25 What can you say after the game ?
26 So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ?
27 What can we say about the laws derived in the last chapter ?
28 Leaving aside this rather striking example of language shift , what can we say about the role of JC for young black Londoners ?
29 3.9 What now can we say about the restriction of postnominal occurrence to a subset of adjectives ?
30 On the basis of these examples , what can we say about the requirements of the information-based organization ?
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