Example sentences of "say [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarettes were passed to Mr Say during the day . |
| 2 | If quick decisions are needed , say during the sales , then at least work out the approximate size of the spaces you have in mind and look out for pieces of furniture that will best fit into them . |
| 3 | Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ? |
| 4 | Listen to what Gabe Mirkin and Martshall Hoffmann in The Sportsmedicine Book say about the athlete 's heart : |
| 5 | He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil . |
| 6 | Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've wondered about the implications of the placing of the head in the font , ’ Theodora said thoughtfully , ‘ and what you say about the possibility of its being a symbolic gesture . |
| 8 | The Minister is attempting to paint a comprehensive picture of what those in industry and commerce in Northern Ireland say about the privatisation , but what about the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council ? |
| 9 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 10 | Do you know what they say about the Fontana di Trevi ? ’ |
| 11 | What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ? |
| 12 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 13 | You say about the Moat House being expensive , well it might be expensive to you or I as an individual , but when you 're negotiating conference rates in the area it is actually cheap and very suitable . |
| 14 | And If what you say about the state of his finances is true then he 'd have every reason for faking his death to escape the music . |
| 15 | ‘ And I do n't care what people say about the age difference . |
| 16 | As you say about the interlock . |
| 17 | The things people say about the book business . |
| 18 | Did you hear my teacher say about the book ? |
| 19 | What about , the ones where , the situation is say about the people freezing , and they do nothing ? |
| 20 | The second question was : If everything is determined by some fundamental theory , then what we say about the theory is also determined by the theory — and why should it be determined to be correct , rather than just plain wrong or irrelevant ? |
| 21 | What does this document say about the issues at hand ? |
| 22 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 23 | A group of villagers had spent the evening in the Red Lion , and after closing time Young did the run in the nude , some reports say as the result of a bet . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China . |
| 25 | The head , in promoting the discussion and holding the ‘ overview ’ of developments across the school as a whole , will be aware that there are many different possible patterns , ranging from a simple ‘ lesson-a-week ’ pattern to a more complex planned programme which might ( for example ) integrate music into a thematic project or topic , and allow for an ‘ intensification period ’ at the end of term ( say for the children to build up to a performance ) . |
| 26 | Many of us look forward to that festive season and yet say after the event , ‘ I am glad that is over . ’ |
| 27 | so erm , and it said to me , erm , say after the beep , and I did n't understand quite where the beep was , right . |
| 28 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 29 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 30 | I heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) say of the poll tax that it was the most misconceived legislation ever . |