Example sentences of "say [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she sez she heard screams saying please for god sake stop and she ran to fetch her husband to see if he could help . |
| 2 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 3 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 4 | So unless we can say , as we said above for knowledge , that you can not claim your belief is justified unless you can tell the difference between cases where such beliefs are true and cases where they are false , it will be impossible to conclude that your true belief here is unjustified . |
| 5 | order the parts and everything , so I went down a couple of days later I said just for curiosity what 's , what 's it gon na cost us this bloody lot ? |