Example sentences of "[v-ing] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 2 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 3 | But I thought to myself , one day somebody is going to say to the child , ‘ Come and whisper in my ear … . ’ ’ |
| 4 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 5 | As he did so , he frantically searched his mind for something reassuring to say to the maniac in the back . |
| 6 | ‘ Okay , but what are ye goin' to say to the priest next time you go to confession , eh ? |
| 7 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 8 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 9 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 10 | One is that I 'm going to give John and Julian and Lloyd an opportunity to say anything that they are burning to say on the basis of hearing us waffle for an hour or so , anything they wish to chip in . |