Example sentences of "[vb past] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I happened to say to the footman , I say : |
| 2 | You did it , you did it very well , yes , but you needed , I know you were going to , you needed to say at the end , is this important to you , or is this something you would like on your policy . |
| 3 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 4 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 5 | Feeling that anything I had to say on the subject would drive passengers to reach for the inflight discomfort receptacle , I asked my spellchecker to do it instead . |
| 6 | ‘ Wonder if there 's an ‘ alf good fence to be found in Glasgow , ’ was all Tommy had to say on the subject . |
| 7 | ‘ Ma certainly did n't bother to display my final report anywhere , ’ was all Daphne had to say on the subject . |
| 8 | What local ‘ MPs and candidates had to say on the day the election date was named : |
| 9 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 10 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 11 | He had told me what he had to say about the murder and was free to call me again any time . |
| 12 | The position used to be quite clear and is well summed up in what Scott LJ had to say in the wartime case concerning the soap flakes : |
| 13 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |