Example sentences of "and say [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you will be on holiday you can explain this and say where you will be staying . |
| 2 | Writing for TODAY , Paul said : ‘ I could get angry and bitter and say Why me ? |
| 3 | He should sign it all over to you and say alright I 'm relinquishing all responsibility |
| 4 | Explain what is meant by endorsing a cheque and say when it is necessary to endorse a cheque . |
| 5 | What I think the danger is there , from a Conservative political perspective , is that having , having , Liberals having with us if you like , got the principle through , Liberals may then go with the Labour party and say right we 've got the principle through , we 've identified four homes , let's have a refurbishment programme , a bit of airport money here , a bit of slippage there and we 'll get this through and then we 'll tackle the problem of closures and if closures is proving difficult let's ignore it for a year , let's do these four and let's go on . |
| 6 | On this occasion they did not come to us and say right we want to negotiate , although several times we went to them and said please , here 's our budget , you know , our budget is now ready , we want to negotiate . |
| 7 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 8 | Erm they are left er a list of er a blank like this and say right you contracted to take the products now we want from , it 'll be this one say , now we want a list of advertisers who or prospec prospect businesses who you think you 're happy for us to approach for a start . |
| 9 | Look at the question and then just close the book and say right I 'm going to try and solve this equation . |
| 10 | Sometimes give it away and say right I 'll teach you how to do this , when they keep coming back and saying what wh you 're running out of time and you think give it you can it 's quite common . |
| 11 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 12 | I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult ! |
| 13 | and say well we 'll hold that for five months but then we 'll go back to the |
| 14 | I I do n't think they 'd sort of hold up their arms and say well we 'll finish altogether if that 's your attitude . |
| 15 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 16 | you know , you just want to sit back and er as far as I would think is to keep calm and say well I , I am right , you know , erm but without being too forceful in that way because then that would put them off |
| 17 | As long as I know that I 'm right er and say well I 'm quite willing to look at the figures that you 've been given , but these are the figures that are right but I will look at them erm and I , and I certainly would n't er confront it much more than that . |
| 18 | Just ask the old girls to make their and say well I want your National Insurance numbers ? |
| 19 | so you could n't do that , you 'd have to tell them that , and say well I 've got to start my |
| 20 | For you to downgrade that and say well I 'm sorry now we 're doing all this , we ca n't guarantee that , it 's disgraceful , absolutely disgraceful . |
| 21 | and the police said all I have to do is phone the police and say well he wants to come and look round the property can I have a policeman there cos I do n't want |
| 22 | But it 's ever so easy for somebody to sit at home and say well you should be doing this and you should be doing that |
| 23 | What you would do in your case with children is probably appoint them all and then they do n't all have to prove so they would hopefully discuss this at the time and say Well you know I 'm a long way away why do n't you two get on with . |
| 24 | Er and I think also it should be helpful to go to er a tutor , an , an , an admissions tutor and say well you know , what , what sort of skills do I need to get ? |
| 25 | But it would be no good to them and say well you know right in the middle of nowhere , cow er sheep or cow country , there are a number of courses we would n't touch because we would n't be able to get enough sus er you know even with five erm major businesses . |
| 26 | that you go in and say well you know |
| 27 | and do with it as you will because at the end of the day then he ca n't turn round and sa , to me and say well you wanted to do this with it i , if it goes wrong ! |
| 28 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 29 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 30 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |