Example sentences of "say [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Staton always takes a group one so if you say just a minute I 'd like one too . |
| 3 | You say just a comment comment , what about that letter we had ? |
| 4 | Say once a week . |
| 5 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to see Dad every now and again , say once a month , and we usually spoke over the phone at least once a week . |
| 7 | I say virtually a spectator role , for the teacher is likely still to endow the pupils with a role label — ‘ I have a patient outside . |
| 8 | It is frequently not permanent , however , and the exercise can usefully be repeated at intervals , say twice a year . |
| 9 | Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution . |
| 10 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
| 11 | As Donna Cassidy who looks after all our recordings in Dublin says once a hit always a hit you know . |
| 12 | The N A S U W T says about a quarter of its teachers face problems brought on by poor pay and extra responsibilities . |
| 13 | The Drowners says quite a lot about Suede as a concept in that it showcases the way we work rhythms into a song , the aggressive bite of the guitar lines , the drawled vocals and the kind of things it talks about . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , I think it , I think it says quite a lot about our society . |
| 15 | family she says quite an eye opener an they had write lines if they did anything wrong one boy just I reckon she could carried him but |
| 16 | I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if |
| 17 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
| 18 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 19 | Does the Prime Minister not remember saying just a year ago on the steps of Downing street that the Conservative party was ’ fully united for the future ’ and is that not patently false now when , in the approach to the vital meeting at Maastricht , the Tory party is in a state of open warfare ? |
| 20 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
| 21 | Mr Foster said only a statement from the Health Secretary would allay public fears that care in the North-East is about to undergo its most radical shake-up for years . |
| 22 | But Gavin Laird , general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said only a miracle could prevent the plant 's closure . |
| 23 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 24 | I said Just a minute but We 've had a Mrs . |
| 25 | Police said yesterday a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 26 | One of the four , Mr Gary Johnson , 46 , said yesterday a job interview he had with Mr David Sharratt , Swithland 's financial director , was ‘ a sham ’ . |
| 27 | So when you said about a second rate citizen yeah ? |
| 28 | So I said well a couple approached my wife here on on Saturday . |
| 29 | He just asked me what we needed and I said well a table . |
| 30 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |