Example sentences of "say [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 2 | Well , she 'll repent of it and agree to all I say before one crumb , or one drop of water , crosses her lips . |
| 3 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 4 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 5 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 6 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 7 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 8 | For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another : |
| 9 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 10 | Tacitly , he made room for Darwin 's science and was even said by one observer to have espoused Darwin 's ideas fully . |
| 11 | The word ‘ garage ’ , for instance , used to sound more like ‘ g'rahge ’ , almost said as one syllable . |
| 12 | For example the development officer said of one client : |
| 13 | It would be possible to say of one Kufran ‘ He owned fifteen trucks ’ : but twelve of them were in transit between partners . |
| 14 | Best of all , perhaps , was his splendid spoonerism that came from an ambitious attempt to say of one player , ‘ He 's sticking out his bottom — like someone sitting on a shooting stick . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That must be it ! ’ they said with one voice , and hurried forward . |
| 16 | He said in one interview that public honours meant nothing to him until his marriage but , even so , the mist of respectability now clung about him always . |
| 17 | He said in one interview that , whatever his final merit as a poet . |
| 18 | I said in one breath he tells me he 's not going to erm going on holiday with Linda . |
| 19 | If the tenant 's death is untimely , that is to say within one year of the date of the letting , there is no reason why the potential successor should lose his home if he has in fact resided with the tenant for 12 months . |
| 20 | Also , since conjunction is a device for signalling relations between chunks of information , it is naturally bound up with both the chunking of information , how much to say in one go , and with how the relations between such chunks of information are perceived and signalled . |
| 21 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 22 | In our group , we said to one member , ‘ Every time you say something , we find ourselves acting on it , so why do n't you contribute more ? ’ ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Sir , ’ I said to one man , ‘ may I have your name , address and next of kin , please . ’ |
| 24 | " He usually asks me for my criticism , " she said to one interviewer . |
| 25 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's from Puno , ’ Ward said at one stage . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know , David , ’ she said at one moment when they had finished their pasta . |
| 28 | John Campbell , aged 52 , a cottar at Giol , said at one time there were nine tenants there who went to America about 32 years since [ 1860 ] , there were at least six in Grastle and Tockmal . |
| 29 | When you had the blues erm near by you said at one time that it was just away from here , was there , was there any , was it , was there any bother after that after the blues then or was it okay ? |
| 30 | ‘ If you want the exact quantities , buy my book , ’ he said at one point , one eye in the direction of the BBC publicity department , before adding , as the other swivelled down towards his drink , ‘ if I can be bothered to write it . ’ |